how do we define REALITY?

Most of us perceive the 'other' world, where our loved ones who have left this world supposedly are, as formless and impossible for us to use those same senses to comprehend. However, it is dawning on me that isn't exactly the way it is at all and I have some pretty amazing examples to prove it, to myself anyway, and I am not easy to convince. I am one who questions and wants proof for everything and I am getting it,

In art we talk about positive and negative spaces and shapes, depending on whether the artwork is three-dimensional or on a flat surface.  Objects are 'positive shapes' in a painting, for example, but are surrounded by 'negative shapes/spaces' that define the objects themselves. The spaces form shapes just as the objects do, and by focusing on drawing the shapes of the spaces between objects, students do really well in depicting things accurately as they appear in the physical world. So, by seeing what is  NOT there, you can define what is. 

Maybe this is a helpful analogy when it comes to more esoteric concepts, too. 

What if we were to interpret information we receive through our senses in more ways ways, such as smelling something that we know is not in our environment, but reminds us of someone. Could that be a sign that person is trying to reach us? This strikes me as not dissimilar to looking for the spaces between objects in the physical world to define them in recognizable ways. 

This website was initially built as a platform  to share my artwork after I retired. Life changes made that alone feel trivial to me, so I am sharing my art as well as the insight I have gained over the years and in particular how I continue to cope with the loss of one of the most important people in my world.  I am not and do not want to be on social media platforms. I am asking people I know to share my website with others if they choose to and I believe that if anyone out there can benefit from what I have to share, you will appear. I am also going to write about the different aspects of the art on my site because it is an important aspect of who I am and it's pretty interesting to learn the origins of the images and how they evolve. 

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