The Arts / Push + Pull

As I close my eyes and drift away to a land where there is love, health, peace, and blessings. I wanted to take the time to think and reflect.

   The beauty of the arts is that they push our thinking, thoughts in to spaces where we would not normally go within our routine thinking. This aspect go the arts could be called beautiful, but could also be thought of in the realm of miraculous; Simply because of what art can do to a person. Art is transformative. It pushes, pulls, urgencies, dependancies, desires, moves us in ways that call us to revolutionize our own thinking. This is not a new thought for me, as many of my readers will know that I've written a lot about art, and it's effects on human beings. But this type of reflective response happens when we take the time to think. Stop for a moment. Think about what the art is asking of us. This could be through tradtional art media, or other artistic forms such as music or dance. 

     These thoughts were renewed when I thought about the cover of the song by the artist Maluma.  

Of course if someone was to pick the song with the cover, we could draw inferences such as playboy, or sexual exploitation. But the cover itself calls us to think beyond what we humans think of as love, sexual relations, or intimacy. What it is, how we define our relationships, and so on. 

     My personal response was that of sheer love. I thought of bodies loving each other, comforting each other, to breath easy for a while, to lean on someones shoulder / body, to sleep peacefully in a sanctuary / enclave of unconditional love. 

     My thoughts can also be related to various tribes, through an anthropological lens, where closeness, sexual intimacy, or relations are not the traditional view held by the Western and also parts of the Eastern world. 

   But what is my point, why do I desire to make readers think of this cover? It's simple: to think about how humans, males, females, or any other gender could come together in the space of unconditional love, without holding any judgement of each other. 

     These thoughts can also be taken to the space of the working world, where competitive drives pull individuals apart, cause separations or tensions, to think about how leadership could smooth hierarchical structures so that everyone feels an equal sense of value or worth, by implementing spaces  for effective team building.

​My example might be viewed as explicit, but isn't that what artists what are supposed to do? ;) To push and pull you within your thought life. 

My thoughts to share with love & kindness! :) 

Notes: These thoughts were originally hand written on August 23rd, 2018.
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