{"id":1840,"date":"2014-03-07T14:01:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T22:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2014-03-07T14:01:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T22:01:40","slug":"the-sky-is-blue-and-so-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/07\/the-sky-is-blue-and-so-am-i\/","title":{"rendered":"The sky is blue and so am I"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1841\" style=\"width: 802px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/177-colormap3-7-14.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1841\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1841\" alt=\"Curled Queen Anne's lace backed by muddy blue pond, daffodil, vetch and clover, impossibly blue sky\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/177-colormap3-7-14.jpg?resize=792%2C612\" width=\"792\" height=\"612\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Curled Queen Anne&#8217;s lace above muddy blue pond, daffodil, vetch &amp; clover, impossibly blue sky<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have to admit that I&#8217;m in a bit of a funk this week.\u00a0 Nothing serious really,\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had some spinning wheel issues for a couple of weeks.\u00a0 Things I started not going anywhere, idea balloons for new endeavors unceremoniously popped by a reality pin.\u00a0 Smallies in the big picture of the world and human struggles and sorrows.\u00a0 So to pull my self up a bit I went for a hike this morning.\u00a0 Always a good thing to let the body take over when the mind is mired.\u00a0 Striding along I began to take note of the colors, the lurid greens flooding forth from muddy ground with new dew drench grasses, a few miniature white wild flowers rearing there tiny heads, a tenacious patch of daffodils planted a century ago by homesteaders long gone, the creek and pond at it&#8217;s head muddy blue-brown from the recent rains ringed with the dark dried tendrils of last years Queen Anne&#8217;s Lace curled up on itself.\u00a0 I took note of all these things combined with the impossibly blue sky.\u00a0 Cloudy with a chance of blue skies or blue skies with a chance of clouds, oh it matters not, impossibly blue.<\/p>\n<p>I have been thinking about but not acting on an idea I had about color mapping.\u00a0 Mapping might not be the right term but I&#8217;ll use it anyway.\u00a0 Mapping the mood and the day by colors.\u00a0 So I made a little template to make witness of the things I saw, to make witness to my mood, a melancholy marked by daffodils can&#8217;t be all that bad.\u00a0 So, as always, taking time to make a little art &#8211; mark a moment, has shifted things a bit. 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