The challenge from the Diva this week was to go back to a tile from your past and see what you make of it now. Quite the poignant challenge! The challenge brings to mind a day when I had been looking at pictures of Matt and then seeing him in the now. He had been traveling in Australia for several months when I unearthed pictures of him in grade school. I just missed him so much and spent a few days rooting around, looking at pictures and thinking about him. Out of the blue, he messaged me and we skyped. When I saw his face come onto the screen with the magic of the world wide inter-web and heard his voice, it occurred to me in a sudden flash, that he was no longer that little boy I had been wistfully looking at a few hours earlier. When had he changed that much ?
Seems sometimes you have to look at things from a distance to realize the change.
So anyways, on the left, a tile that I signed on 3/19/15 -roughly a year ago, early in my Zentangle journey. I did my best to duplicate the string from the original tile - using the light pencil line and tangles for clues. On the original, I used Mookah, Chillon, Crescent Moon and Eke.
The second tile, I left out Eke - didn't feel the need to fill every empty space. Looking at both, I believe I have grown a little. Not as much as I had hoped when I picked up my first Micron pen.
I had this vision of being Grandma Moses, starting an art career in my old age. Not there yet, but who knows? Right now, I am satisfied with the peace that tangling brings me, those wistful Zen moments.
"Whether you think you can or you can't, you are right."
For right now, I think I can.
