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... Sometimes we must effort more in some areas -- maybe there's a busy project at work, or else a loved one who is sick that must be taken care of. We must, then, allow in other areas in order to compensate. When the project is over and the illness has resolved, we find other areas in which we effort and allow.
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"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.”
Georgia O'Keeffe
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The predominant manner in which I coped with all of these emotions was immersion in art...
... I sketched and painted, and this is the period when I first fell in love with van Gogh, de Kooning, and Pollock. Abstract art was a way for me to place my rawness front and center, without words, without fear of retribution. I didn't need to explain anything; the canvas did it for me. I didn't have to use reason or rational thought, because in creating I found a solution to my doubts.