My pictures come in as sentences,
short bursts of words my mind plays
in response to a picture or feeling.
Not song lyrics or anothers poetry
but what my mind says in seeing it;
the repeated refining and speaking it aloud,
the ear to hear a new sentence within,
creates the energetic poetry
that finally gets to what
I really mean to say.
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.
Counterintuition: an instant change of picture and response,
given by neuro and physical emotions saying, ‘this, instead‘.
It’s a part of your intuition and a place that comes from even further out / (or deeper);
a ‘wild card’ of deep knowing, immediately.
It requires trust in yourself like never before,
physically being in your body like never before,
which is the practice of inside body connection and inner communication
that builds mental and emotional strength to do other things,
and in that spirit, ultimately, the things you were meant to do.
Dorothy Perry, contacted here.
Seen at different times of the day,
the art in your home engages and influences your energy.
Like arranging feng shui elements in a home
bringing flowing good energy into life activities,
your art has other metaphysical abilities in addition to decoration.
A life missions’ purpose in the morning, inspiration in the afternoon,
or a satisfying sense of legacy relaxing in the evenings.
I have had clients hang their couples’ portrait in their kitchen
where they contemplate their relationship
in the private early morning time before work.
Others hang child portraits eye-level,
raising confidence in photos of love
on the walls they pass every day.
Baby sized portrait books offer
a personalized bedtime storytelling experience.
Beauty created for both the eyes and spirit.
I would love to know if you have created
such zones of energy in your home in this manner.
It is easy but intentional. Contact me to create this ‘flow’ of energy
whether with my custom portraits or your own.
Dorothy Perry, Contact or https://dorothyperry.com/contact/.
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ALWAYS show
the vision of the types of photographs
you desire to make.
Your photograph with your optimistic energetic signature
lives in the internet ‘ether’ for years,
attracting for years as well,
and should be both your best
and your choice.
Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer
of family portraits and happiness. Contact her here.
I have been a photographer without a fixed location for much of my career here in Chicago. A permanent location never seemed in the cards for me.
As years went by, the vision of this passion would flare briefly when I displayed my photos in local coffeeshops, bakeries, libraries and other unconventional spaces.
I once had a charming space in a vintage building at a prime location in the Wicker Park area. As everything I earned was consumed by rent, I quickly learned the grown-up lesson about pricing my services appropriately!
Back to home base again, not only for financial reasons, but to do a deep dive into the inner self that kept sabotaging me, saying I did not deserve to be successful.
Seeking independence, going my own way, creating something different: the miasma of all these rejections seemed to hang in the air, clouding my picture of myself with my dream.
I did not know I had to keep seeing the dream in detail, no matter what my current situation said, no matter what painful memories I remembered, to eventually hear the clear quiet that guides my actions now.
This included honest, updated assessment of that relationship as well. Five years after publishing this post, I have left this relationship.
But…using the emotional energy contained in memory that is able to be recalled and returned fully back to me, the enjoyment of life returned full force,
and a spectacular dream came true during the summer of 2024.
I love to share what opens energy around me, and am posting an original affirmation that also addresses the concerns around making increasing amounts of money.
There are different ways to use this gem:
I choose now to heal my relationship with money and my finances. So it is.
I release all resistance to where I am right now financially.
I release being angry with or hating my current position now with money. I let this go now.
I open myself to know that where I am now is only temporary, and I choose to fully embrace and accept where I am now with complete love so that I can create more money and wealth. So it is.
I release all resistance to being broke, or not having enough money. I allow myself to just be with it now.
I open myself to know that if I embrace this now, and stop looking at my situation as bad, the energy will transmute and things can change. I allow myself to accept it now. So it is.
I release making being broke or without money wrong.
I release the feeling that where I am right now is bad.
I release all beliefs that I am a failure if I don’t have enough money. I let that go and open myself to know that life is full of contrasting experiences just so that I can get clear on what I want to create.
I open myself to know that “good” or “bad,” is just “desired,” and “undesired.” So it is.
I release any repeated focusing on how much I don’t have.
I release all decisions to see, hear, focus and speak from scarcity, and I choose now to focus on all the abundance in my life.
I open myself to remember that scarcity and limitation doesn’t really exist anywhere but in my mind. I release it from my mind and focus and in every situation I choose abundance. So it is.
I completely and fully forgive myself for creating this current situation.
I open myself to correct myself without blame, shame, or invalidation. So it is.
I release all beliefs, agreements and programming from my parents and 5 generations back that making money is wrong for an artist, troublesome, and dangerous, and that I am disloyal for wanting to be rich.
I release all programming that money is scarce, limited, and hard to make.
I release all memories from this lifetime and all other lifetimes of issues of and around money.
I let this go now, and I transmute all memories and unwanted energies into pure light… so it is.
I release my association of earning and having money and finances with emotional, mental or physical pain.
I open myself to see that money was never capable of hurting me or those I love. I let this go and see money and prosperity and creativity with new eyes. So it is.
I release all decisions, agreements and programming from this life, energy, and experiences that having lots of money is limited, difficult, hard, dangerous, and troublesome to have.
I let this go and open myself to remember that I am a powerful creator capable of creating and manifesting anything I choose.
I choose to remember that all it takes is a simple shift in my focus. I remember this now and shift my focus accordingly. So it is.
I open myself to fully experience having more and more than enough money in my life.
I open myself to experience being rich and wealthy, and I allow myself to have it now. So it is.
I choose to put myself in the space of already having that which I want, so that I call it into my experience metaphysically first.
And I open myself to have fun with this, and to enjoy the journey. So it is.
I now rest in abundance, I rest in having enough. I find my stillness in the space of well-being and in being, doing and having more. So it is.
After the affirmation, ’embody’ it –
Wiggle a ‘happy dance’ like a kid! Smile! Clap, jump and shake out your body!
BE thanks for the abundance you have now and what you already have experienced! Spread the good energy ‘sparkle’ around in your world!
May this aid circumstances seen and unseen to bring abundance into your life.
Let’s connect through my Contact Page to talk about envisioning yours.
My personal portraits focus on enjoyment & contemplation.
To that end, I remove canes, walkers, and aids for standing in the final framed portrait.
It is not a denial of their current age or health situation,
but a focus on a personal image that celebrates
a life-affirming vision of wholeness.
Always to your health, Dorothy
Professional artists love the opportunity for a ‘hands-on’ workshop with Sean Michael Felix, one of the best gold sign artists in the Midwest and the US.
Everyone’s creativity was enhanced by the beautiful setting and free flow of information: an urban ‘artist’s retreat’ experience.
Even the cats played their part to bring an ultra-relaxed vibe into the space.
These artisans in glass, tattooing, custom finishing, and sign-making come here to play, take these techniques to their businesses, and make them their own.
It feels great to be able to impart such knowledge and create artwork that adds much-needed beauty to this world.
Reach out to have a real artist experience. Feed your soul by creating something beautiful!
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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.
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.
