not good enough

Today’s selection, another product of my ongoing experiment with automatic drawing, serves as a reminder that messages received in childhood embed themselves deeply in soul, body, and psyche, well below the level of words, rational thinking, and life experience as an adult. Sometimes art making is the truest and quickest path to bring these unconscious imprints up to the surface where we can see them, know them, own them, and (hopefully) transform and/or release them.

When I look at this drawing, I am reminded of a fingerprint (associated with identity) and a disrupted brain (faulty thinking), a combination that suggests a pattern of false belief about myself so deeply embedded and imprinted within me that it feels like part of my identity even though it really isn’t.

I’m also reminded of a labyrinth. This has some interesting connotations as well, especially in conjunction with the title, a phrase that came to me, as is usually the case, just as I was completing the drawing.

The not good enough by Rick Belden, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.