Emotional Hieroglyphs - OX part I

There are shapes I often return to in my art journal. One of them is a -not perfect- circle. It's slightly wonky, irregular and -most importantly- it’s not fully closed. There’s an empty space in the line. I’ve tried to close it many times, "drawing" over it again and again but somehow it never feels right. I think because it is not supposed to be closed. That empty space represents something real: there’s no closure.

A lot has happened -both in my personal life as in the world- and I’ve spent years trying to find ways to make it all neatly resolved, tied up with a bow. But it just doesn’t work that way. Things stay unfinished. Questions stay unanswered. Stories stay open.

Maybe I don’t need to work so hard to close the circle.

Maybe it’s meant to stay open.

To breathe.

To leave room for possibilities I can’t yet see.

If you recognize that feeling of unfinishedness, your are not alone. Can it be that we don’t have to close these circles to move forward?.

Love & stay messy,

Bianca