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THE BARRIER OF NEW

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A friend tells me she has acquired a new bed - an old wooden one - and she is finally going to indulge in a wish to paint designs on a bed, to unleash creativity thusly.  I relate to the 'canvas' needing to be 'not new' in the situation of painting on furniture or clothing or walls or - well, you get the idea. 

Canvas intended for a painting or furniture intended to be decorated is something else. 

But there is such a reluctance to somehow mar a pristine surface that is someone else's product - usually mass produced!  It's cloying, actually.  Restrictive. 

With something that does not carry that 'barrier of newness' there is the potential - lord, the invitation - to personalize.  And maybe that is part of the craving and then the satisfaction.  And all the details, of course, in the journey of accepting our own creativeness.

Posted on March 02, 2005 at 07:56 AM | Permalink

 

A friend tells me she has acquired a new bed - an old wooden one - and she is finally going to indulge in a wish to paint designs on a bed, to unleash creativity thusly.  I relate to the 'canvas' needing to be 'not new' in the situation of painting on furniture or clothing or walls or - well, you get the idea. 

Canvas intended for a painting or furniture intended to be decorated is something else. 

But there is such a reluctance to somehow mar a pristine surface that is someone else's product - usually mass produced!  It's cloying, actually.  Restrictive. 

With something that does not carry that 'barrier of newness' there is the potential - lord, the invitation - to personalize.  And maybe that is part of the craving and then the satisfaction.  And all the details, of course, in the journey of accepting our own creativeness.

A friend tells me she has acquired a new bed - an old wooden one - and she is finally going to indulge in a wish to paint designs on a bed, to unleash creativity thusly.  I relate to the 'canvas' needing to be 'not new' in the situation of painting on furniture or clothing or walls or - well, you get the idea. 

Canvas intended for a painting or furniture intended to be decorated is something else. 

But there is such a reluctance to somehow mar a pristine surface that is someone else's product - usually mass produced!  It's cloying, actually.  Restrictive. 

With something that does not carry that 'barrier of newness' there is the potential - lord, the invitation - to personalize.  And maybe that is part of the craving and then the satisfaction.  And all the details, of course, in the journey of accepting our own creativeness.