Thirty-One Thresholds – An Art Project to Discover Just What I Need!

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I am starting a new project. It is called Thirty-One Thresholds.

https://traffordhistory.org/lookingback/mcc7v4lmkh I’ve done similar projects before, turning to art for expression and healing often when I feel mired in a big black space.

https://www.parolacce.org/2024/09/18/4ole34k I suspect most of us have those black periods sneak up on us at one time or another. It feels like falling into a very dark hole, and then realizing the way out isn’t visible. No matter how frantic the struggle to emerge, no matter the intelligent discourse, or the pleading, or the “just-pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps” conversations I would frequently have with myself back, I remained in the black hole. One particularly bad time was in 2007.

https://semnul.com/creative-mathematics/?p=8kksms7 There were situational happenings in my life that made day-to-day living feel a bit a lot crazy-making. Yet, in my not-so-clear thinking, I was unable to extend myself the grace I needed to be kind to myself and to create a much-needed space for extreme self-care.

click I tried to fight my way out of the hole, but that only exhausted and angered me, and frustrated the people who cared most. Eventually I asked for/received the help I needed from wise friends, family and health care providers. With plans and medications in order, glimmers of light appeared ever so slowly.

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But the real, flood-light change had to come, not from without, but from within.

click here So in a rather haphazard attempt I latched onto a creative project that both held my attention and was within my temporary limited abilities. (I think that may be how much creative work is born – haphazardly and from great need).  I decided I would take a photograph each day for a year and post it on my recently created blog.

get link Looking back, this was actually a huge undertaking.  I was a novice with a DSLR camera, but it seemed doable. My only rule was to take a photograph and post it. Every day. For one year. I figured that in a year I would likely be in a totally different and great space.

https://www.thoughtleaderlife.com/2duxjwse780 It was a new to me idea then — I know 365 projects are common photo practices now, but I thought I was inventing…oh..the wheel or something equally unique!

Buy Valium Diazepam Uk There actually was no easy way. There were no Instagram apps or smart phones in those days, so my commitment required a string of details that challenged me repeatedly, each and every day — take a photograph, download, post-process, upload, write a few words, post to blog, sigh, deep breath. (This meant I also had to get my depressed being out of bed, dressed, etc., etc., etc…)

Persistence paid off. I posted 365 photos in 365 days.

Cheap Valium Online Uk I learned a helluva lot about photography, but I also learned that I could set a long-term goal way out of my comfort zone and succeed.

https://www.drcarolineedwards.com/2024/09/18/y0hmud65qrx And it was in the doing that success was realized.

go to site I felt better about myself. I developed new skills. I met new people. I engaged with living again. Eventually I established a small business, Seeded Earth Studio LLC, featuring my photography and more recently my book art.

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Why am I writing about something that happened almost eight years ago?

Buying Diazepam Online Because, once again, I find myself wandering in this dark space. Or to be more exact, stuck in a black space that feels like a wet bed of concrete. I am this barely aware, heavy-booted wanderer trying to maneuver through a mucky, concrete maze.

click here Again there is struggle.

https://marcosgerente.com.br/5g7ycgcl Again there are life situations which have disrupted my equilibrium – medical issues, family responsibilities. Again there are my particular (to me) crazy-making responses and one of my responses is to want to go fall back into that familiar black hole. Seasonal Affective Disorder has taken its toll despite all the compensatory aids in place. Depression sneaks in. And, as it has been for the last four years, my winter stay in sun drenched Arizona is not in the near future.

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https://trevabrandonscharf.com/6q0448wa1xc The Creation – Threshold © 2014 Bo Mackison

I am not really wanting to spend a lot of my precious time in black holes this time around. And so I needed a plan.

https://everitte.org/anmipkpo As I have done many times in the last eight years, I enlisted my go-to heavy hitters as my assistants — my camera and a new project!

Cheap Valium For Sale And by declaring my intentions and posting it on my blog, I exposed a certain amount of accountability.

The new project, entitled https://marcosgerente.com.br/4yxv84a2j Thirty One Thresholds, is quite basic.

Buy Valium With Mastercard Online The project requires me, first, to leave my house — apparently one of my coping mechanisms is to turn into a hermit, not such a wise thing to do long-term…

https://ragadamed.com.br/2024/09/18/im0724as Then I go somewhere in the Madison area, camera in hand, and cross over a threshold. 

follow url It could be the threshold of doors of an art gallery or museum, a historical building, a library. Or on milder, sunny days I might venture through the threshold of gates to a park or garden, or the entrance to a local attraction…

And I truly believe, though I’m not sure what nuggets of wisdom I’ll discover as I cross these various thresholds, or exactly what it is I’m looking for…

I’m willing to believe I will find it (or it will find me) and it will be just what I need!

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  1. https://www.fandangotrading.com/848cwj7 Sounds interesting and liberating. I look forward to your images and observations.

  2. https://vbmotorworld.com/m1xxh30 The project sounds great Bo. I’m sorry things are hard just now. Thank you for your honesty in sharing.

  3. Lynn Buckler Walsh says

    https://www.thephysicaltherapyadvisor.com/2024/09/18/97b7f8mcdej I really love the threshold concept, Bo, and really look forward to reading about it and seeing what emerges for you and from your camera.

  4. kathleen Carpenter says

    I am glad that you have a project that takes you out over your threshold to the light and toward other thresholds, Bo.

  5. Interesting project and one that should be fun too, which is what the brain and body need when things are so overwhelming. I look forward to seeing what you photograph. Remember to include some essay too, even if just where you were and what you did. I don’t care if it’s boring! Although that will eventually work its way out into something better as you perk up and get more invested in your project.

    Nancy

  6. Verra Interesting, Mz. Bo. My own blog reflects we are in similar spaces. I love this project and will be there for you when you need a little chat, a hand up, a boost. Love you!

  7. What a great project, Bo! We seem to be living somewhat parallel lives. In 2007, which is when we “met” through blogging, I was on a healing mission with my blog (Bountiful Healing), and now I find myself in a similar position this year. Perhaps these things come in cycles.

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