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Originally Posted by KarlThomas
Thanks for that, Chris! As someone who avoids conflict, I need to manage my concept of it, and your relationship to conflicts in the storytelling context is a good reminder. There's juice in them thar hills: and one does well to remember that they are simply part of existing.
Oddly enough, I logged on here this morning to avoid opening a certain conflict-riddled email. Same sloth you are referring to, Kay! It is easier for me to pick a different direction to gaze, when sometimes the work is simply to face that conflicting reality, and deal.
Sigh! Off to the inbox.
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I can really relate to you on this. On so many levels I fear conflict and actively try to avoid it. Often this means I make matters worse as resentment is stored up, festers and eventually spills out more fiercely as a result.
Of all the images we created, this was one of my two least favourites. part of this is down to feeling dissatisfied with the image on a technical level but I'm rapidly realising it has more to do with being uncomfortable with the concept of the card itself.
The photo of the two colliding galaxies is fascinating yet to enhance the meaning, Kay rightly instructed me to go for quite a jagged feel in the design for the seven wands. The implied violence of the collision frightens me yet as Karl points out, there is positive healing energy to be found even in the most threatening of situations like this. Sometimes 'collisions' are inevitable and despite the violent upheaval, life ends up being enlarged and enriched. At other times, collisions are just collisions and as they say, shit happens. I'm starting to realise that's a valid part of being alive too.
Chris. xx