You will be alone many times
when you shine, stand out, grow, excel or are happy.
Even in groups, even among your friends.
Be okay with aloneness for learning to trust and befriend yourself.
Dorothy, contacting here.
Tag: Photography
‘Reading’ Your Room Through Intuitive Art Placement
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.
Positioning
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.
Influence Your Home’s Energy Atmosphere
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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The Practice
I follow a writer and influencer named Maxpein on X.
The curated posts always raise the bar,
but this one vibrated with beauty and poetry.
Without force, I am simply suggesting
tune in – the time is now.
Integrate your tools into your being.
Practice meditation without music, incense & oils.
Practice opening your heart without cacao or chocolate treats.
Practice multidimensional sight without plants.
Practice yoga without a mat.
Practice ceremony without feathers, guitars & drums.
Practice clearing without sage.
Practice enhancing, amplifying and protecting without crystals.
Practice without any aids…
just You and the expanded You.
Practice conversing without convincing.
Practice being without doing.
Practice feeling without analyzing.
Practice experiencing without criticism.
Practice listening without projecting.
Practice thinking without a story.
Practice speaking without parroting.
Practice seeing without lights.
Practice dancing without a DJ.
Practice getting there without GPS.
Practice creating without a laptop.
Practice connecting without a phone.
Practice Love without conditions.
Practice. ~ Kamau Abayomi
Dorothy Perry is a photographer of family happiness. Contact her here.
Endless Good
My Threads community
has me doing some simple tools
to help prosperity on its way.
Burning bay leaves written
with a desire for abundance
has WORKED in creating random opportunity
where money has come quite easily
and from places I had not expected
when I ‘prime the canvas’ enegetically
to create and manifest.
Endless Good now comes to me in endless ways.
Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer of family portraits and happiness. Contact her here.
Given Wings
“Birds make great sky-circles
of their freedom.
How do they learn it?
They fall, and falling,
they’re given wings.” ~ Rumi
Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer
of family portraits and happiness. Contact her here.
On A Portrait Never Seen Before
How do I make my portraits?
By watching you in sunlight, in play, in relaxation.
In quietness. In laughter.
In glances where you both recollect and reconnect,
with good moments within your togetherness.
Looking for your beauty at all times.
Seeing your beauty at all times.
Making a view you have never seen before.
You, at your best. In love.
Inquire about my personal portraiture
that captures the ‘sparks’ of couples (or the ‘sparkle’ in you)
to warm the spirit again and again.
Intrigued? Interested? Let’s connect and chat.
Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer specializing in custom family portraits, modern headshots, & personal branding for women and executives.
AbunDance
The action of dancing
is our body’s inner communication with us,
and, deeper, a connection to the Divine in us.
Whether our glances or our bodies meet on the floor,
the dancer in me honors the dancer in you.
Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer
of family portraits and happiness. Contact her here.
The First Purple
The mercurial Midwest Spring has been hard on the beautiful flowers
that come up in the neighbors’ gardens.
They come into the beautiful, shapes colors and scents
and sometimes into extended days of rain and chill that blast and freeze them.
The lilac season came in the midst of rain and bone chilling temperatures.
In a week, they had bloomed and then were gone.
I picked a wild branch, that true to all wild things, did not open,
but found a blooming garden and stood there
(as long as my son let me)
breathing in the air of my childhood
being again as the little curious, exploring, growing child.
And with this brief meeting this season,
I ‘got’ how flowers are used as examples
to teaching the here and nowness of life:
so beautifully, completely HERE
in their short season and time on Earth.
Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer
of family portraits and happiness. Contact her here.
