still waters

Anger is my teacher, when acknowledged I can feel it wanting to break loose, tearing away from each muscle,

cracking open my bones pouring out of my marrow. Why such anger I can give a million why’s but they will not make the anger go away – do the why’s even matter? It’s the anger that matters in this moment, its the Anger that needs to be harnessed to bring about movement and change The anger wants to be seen The anger wants to be acknowledged Anger is an aspect of all that I Am I Love my Anger My Anger shows me my boundaries Anger is not about hate or harm Anger is a road to discovering myself, a teacher

that guides me, shows me when my personal boundaries are being violated by my own hand or by another’s

When I don’t see Anger, when I placate it with love and light platitudes it recedes into dark places where it simmers quietly it will then show me its presence with aches and pains, until they can no longer be ignored…

Anger is a great teacher

(from my diary October 2017)

Painting came out of a process art class where we were exploring who we are, at the time of the work prep I was truly happy and could not understand why my work was not showing what I thought I was feeling, i delved deeper creating this oil on canvas and in a fit of anger began a layer of destruction and throwing on colour that revealed what lay beneath the surface…….G