What if.
What if we could dig a hole big enough to hold our grief?
What if.
What if we could dig a tunnel to Afghanistan to help all the people, women and children especially, who want to get out of Taliban rule?
What if.
I keep asking what if...
An artist I met while living in Los Angeles dug a hole. A very large hole. Full of meaning and full of community. A huge displacement of dirt. Is her hole enough to hold the grief of all? Heck no!
Still. Better a huge hole than no hole at all.
Her hole is much like the empty space of the dots I have been painting and photographing.
Dots.
Holes.
Circles.
The world really really needs our creative input. Maybe dig a hole or make a hole or draw a hole and write inside of it or outside of it. Let's use the idea of a hole as a place to hold our emotions. I'd rather pay attention to my feelings rather than allowing my feelings to free-fall into a black hole of endless nothingness.
A hole or a dot can hold hope.
A tiny painting from my Dot Dilemma series, this one is only 2 x 2 inches. It holds "just enough" and is "stitched" together with white ink.
Oh, yes! Here is the article about digging a hole to contain grief.