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‘Reading’ Your Room Through Intuitive Art Placement

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One day after weeks of sitting in a room,

I can suddenly feel the image on the left should be moved to the right,

and feel much better on doing so.

My inspiration stemmed from a Threads writer

advising people to hang their own original art up on their walls ‘somewhere you’ll see it often’.

Many of my community and clients are visual artists themselves,

and it’s a terrific idea in seeing your images from your computer or camera actually visual in actuality

is a very good energy for creative people who sometimes exist in sensitivity,

and have experiences that need to call in feelings of validation and encouragement during their processes.

From an energetic view, though, I would curate the work by feel to fit and enhance the ‘time’ the room is used,

to mesh and match the images with the organic time flow of your home

to enhance where you rest, work, and eat – and especially where you ‘future’.

Some images illustrate your waking early morning energy:

to show your family fortune in golden triumph, (this can also be a family portrait).

I have nothing against vision boards,

but I am drawn to that meaningful art message

being within periphery and sight elegantly, however it works for you.

The images for your day and afternoon generating area or workspace ideally are chosen

for its subconscious boosting ‘recharge’ to inspiration throughout the workday;

tabletop sized family photos of the kids at play, big wide baby smiles,

or the special shot that is your absolute FAVORITE

and makes you happy every time your eye falls on it.

Legacy photos of loved ones and goals achieved

create the warmth of gratitude in mind.

Sit and have coffee, fill your eyes with beauty,

and create a restful garden for your mind.

Sometimes also the first selection may take moving around or changing out.

Those photos or art show you by their inner sensation of feeling

WHAT goes WHERE. It’s a process that takes time for me:

and returns to sensing the room as you enter and stay;

and ‘read the room’ until it brings your eyes

H A P P I N E S S.

Dorothy Perry, Contact.

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Pleased to Meeting You!

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As a small business photographer, I see people working together to provide the best experiences their own businesses can offer. All the time.

My special skill is in capturing the brief, but beautiful moments of interactions, outreach, networking and personal celebrations with better than normal portraits with the participants of your distinctive event.

This good feeling image, taken during the networking of the Northside Networking Group, captures their natural, engaging images for social media needs.

 Contact Dorothy Perry for commissioned work here.

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Laughter In My Soul

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This is a reprint of the article “About Life” by Napoleon Hill.

Life, you can’t subdue me because I refuse to take your discipline too seriously.

When you try to hurt me, I laugh — and the laughter knows no pain.

I appreciate your joys wherever I find them;

your sorrows neither frighten nor discourage me,

for there is laughter in my soul.

Temporary defeat does not make me sad.

I simply set music to the words of defeat and turn it into a song.

Your tears are not for me, for I like laughter much better, and because I like it,

I use it as a substitute for grief and sorrow and pain and disappointment.

Life, you are a fickle trickster — don’t deny it.

You slipped the emotion of love into my heart

so that you might use it as a thorn with which to prick my soul —

but I learned to dodge your trap with laughter.

You tried to lure me with the desire for gold,

but I have fooled you by following the trail which leads to knowledge instead.

You induced me to build beautiful friendships —

then converted my friends to enemies so you may harden my heart,

but I sidestepped your figure on this by laughing off your attempts

and selecting new friends in my own way.

You caused men to cheat me at trade so I will become distrustful,

but I won again because I possess one precious asset which no man can steal —

it is the power to think my own thoughts and to be myself.

You threaten me with death, but to me death is nothing worse

than a long peaceful sleep, and sleep is the sweetest of human experiences

— excepting laughter.

You build a fire of hope in my heart, then sprinkle water on the flames,

but I can go you one better by rekindling the fire — and I laugh at you once more.

You have nothing that can lure me away from laughter,

and you are powerless to scare me into submission.

To a life of laughter, then, I raise my cup of cheer!

Laughing all the way, I celebrate your own Songs of Triumph in portrait form. Contact me here.

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Gunslinger

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Names have been changed to protect the innocent.

My partner of five years decided to tell me

that the last five years were a total lie.

Imagine learning someone waited patiently for years

for the best moment to break your heart and trust in others.

A seismic jolt to the core of me

at a time I was happiness on two legs, ecstatic at my first solo show.

Now with the years and intimacies of memories colored and changed by betrayal,

No picture I see can be trusted.

But by deleting these photos on Facebook, I am also deleting the visible signs to me of my own moments and growth.

I decided to take my stand and reclaim the energy around my photographs.

Though he is in them, the ones I like are MINE,

and energy is always returned to me whenever I see it again.

In meditative renaming, I speak to remembering the high level of what I gained, evidenced, and celebrated,

reclaiming it for good, and returning it to me.

I call it my Song of Triumph, and I seek to keep this positive version of events

in my conversations going forward.

During my show’s run, I visited my photos and smiled and sang in the hallways, looked and spoke lovingly to the artwork, talked in words of happiness and joy,

felt good all up and down those hallways.

I took photos of my happiness and gratitude

at what had occurred and manifested visibly so quickly in my life.

I had wanted to have a show downtown (I did) in a beautiful old historical church,

with a show I had wanted to display for many years.

And no matter who tried to hate on it – some closer proximity than others –

it was beautiful and memorable.

I am reminded of the Old West idea of a gunslinger.

The guy has such a vibe that everyone tries him;

everywhere a stranger stepping up to challenge him

with “Who Do You Think You Are?” energy.

In this case, this feeling is also accompanied by

“Knock You Off Your High Horse” to put a plan into action.

My strength and superpower is that ever since I was a young girl

I have possessed a very strong natural psychic presence

and deal with “Who Do You Think You Are?” energy like the air I breathe

throughout school, travelling, and very odd spontaneous encounters with those triggered by my mere presence every day.

Connected to love and witnessed by God every day for the purity of my intentional heart,

My experiences dealing with envious evil eye ego diva drama energy

stems from constant Divine connection

to this assured inner self

who answers “Who Do You Think You Are?” with a quiet glance.

My little ‘sparkler’ awakened by my vulnerable questions

is a firecracker in my daily life,

moving out all the nonsense people

wanting and wasting her Dorothy’s valuable energy.

God bless my intuition through Spirit

and release of attempts to connect into my energy

as oftenandoftenasoftenandoften

and from WHOM as often as needed.

May every memory

entangled in emotional betrayal

be transmuted through Spirit

into forgiveness, healing, and light.

With obsidian in my pockets,

laughter in my eyes, and love in my heart,

I am dancing back into my life

whether you see me or

just hear about me from a distance.

“Just because you lost me as a friend, doesn’t mean you gained me as an enemy. I’m bigger than that, I still wanna see you eat, just not at my table.” ― Tupac

Dorothy Perry specializes in personal portraits imbued with deep feeling. Contact her here.

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Just The Two Of Us

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Within the mindset that what we do for others, we are working on in ourselves, I see the actions I am taking to help someone grow

are the things that are my struggle to grow with as well.

My son and I have been a tight pair since he was born. He was not an easy boy to raise

after vaccinations caused developmental regression at an important stage of life.

School, Aspergers, socialization, therapy: we had our roles: I was his cheerleader and advocate, tried to anticipate issues, ease him into trying new things –

and dust myself off when well-meaning experiments sometimes went south (I actually wrote some pretty good poetry about this period of time.)

Over time, I came to realize that some of these well-meaning efforts ‘bubble-wrapped’ him

against the work he needed to do to stand on his own feet…

Steps he needed to take himself.

I realize to be an advocate of his independence in this new stage of life, I needed to step back and let him

make his own decisions,

set new expectations,

disagree with me,

fix his own dinner,

handle his finances,

figure out his own schedules,

make his own mistakes.

Old habits die hard, and being a ‘helicopter mom’ was second nature for twenty years.

It’s still hard sometimes not to take the wheel for him when he is working things out.

But this is the work towards a measure of independence that we both have to do in our own lives.

It has taken longer in time than some young adults need, but that is what it took. It takes different types of strategies and preparations, and some hand-holding,

but that is what it takes as well.

And with extra time, reassurance and ‘figure it out yourself’,

I see that he is more assured, trying his wings, making short flights.

And succeeding.

One thing, though never changes.

I have a little ritual in the mornings, where I watch him walking to work in the crowds, as far as I can see him, until he is out of sight.

And then, saying ‘thank you’ in tears of gratitude

for the marvel of a young man walking down the street to work –

a vision that looks so everyday and ordinary,

but is evidence of beautiful, positive growth that has happened in ours.

Update of sorts: the time at home over Covid and the preparation to return to work caused some anxiety we could not manage or assuage, and in time he left the firm.

I am creating our schedules with more attention

on doing the things he does here at home himself

to take responsibility, care for himself, and figure things out.

All as quietly as he usually does things.

No matter what it looks like from the outside,

I have dreams of this next step and germinating it

until it is strong enough to flower.

Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer.

 Contact her here.