Heal Emotional Difficulties With Your Imagination

"Passages"

"I'm ready! If I be a mermaid or a fairy I will become a blessing to my inner child. I try...I do, to rise up past the moan of disappointments, they are not my own. I hold myself and bless this fairy, this mermaid within and she tells me to believe that I can do anything. The final fantasy real emotion is what I must not apologize for. I long to feel things deeply and so I do. It is the tenderness of the dew on a rose petal, the tear in a travelers eye and the wisdom gained by noticing. If I do not recognize real emotions then however will I touch the earth, the oceans wetness or lift up into the air to view its magic? How oh Wind am I ever going to learn?" The inner art fairy within touched by the Wind lifted her heart and said, "Can you reach past limitations created by your own thoughts? Can you heal emotional difficulties with your imagination?"

And the wind said, "You are already on your way just to notice the journey exists is enough. I lift you towards your travel"

Up in the air I see the world below me. It flutters and spins and I am covered with the dew of rainbows while off in the distance I view of storms before and behind me.

Sometimes when I paint I stand back and realize new things about myself. My painting "Passages" is about that pathway. I have learned that you can heal emotional difficulties with your imagination. Imagination, oh such a gift and unspoken treasure. If I become a fairy or my friends are mermaids I discover it within my beloved palette as the colors move past my brush and onto the canvas. Fairies and mermaids are everywhere, in the final fantasy of real emotion or in tiny spots of time that feel silent. Best of all a fairy, if you let her, lives in your own heart. She does not need wings to fly or a mermaid a tail to swim if fantasy spins you a different tale. This fairy, mermaid friend, inner child is right there any time you need her, just ask the Wind.

The Art of Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
figurative art