⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️  NEW DIRECTION  - Ed. No. 39 - IT'S NOT A MATTER OF 'US' AND 'THEM'

Study for “He gave us a song in our heart. Thank you Mr. Utzon.” (1995) / Artist: Neville Williams

To read more about this artwork go to NevilleWilliamsArt 

THE LOVE AND THE PASSION

Recently love walked into my life most surprisingly for me at the age of 70.

Who’d have thought? I’ve essentially lived my life alone (but not lonely) so this tsunami of change hits most unexpectedly…and it does knock you off your feet.

I was only saying to two friends very shortly beforehand that I would never close the door on the possibility of ever finding love in another person. 

Well there you go the power that is must have been listening!

So what does a person do with their life when love comes along?

My answer to that is to change. (Easier said than done I am finding.)

When a person’s focus has been on his Passions pretty much all of my life with both numerous successes and too some failures along the way a person needs to ask themselves should I follow my passions or should I follow love?

Truth is I’m spent of passion. For me I can only follow love.

The original meaning for the word passion is pain?

And OMG have I experienced both pleasures and plenty of pain following my passions. So I’m in the process of as best I can removing the pain/passions from my life and heading towards a path of LOVE. 

I reckon a good slice of the world’s problems are tied up in human beings complete obsessions with our so called passions. In fact humanity’s competitive passions have us pushing ourselves towards a very steep precipice. Greed and fear are ever so ugly beasts and this is dominating us and spewing out the most awful bile, dysfunction and lack of clarity possible across our world presently. Even what I would describe as “good people” are at each others throats. It is sad and unedifying.

I remember a good friend’s words to me that “Today you’ve got to have three goes at ANYTHING to get it done”. Presently there’s a horrible “storm of difficulty” in full flight and there is no sign of it abating. And no sign of any rainbow let alone Sunshine on the horizon.

Why do I have to invest twice the amount of energy today to achieve half the result?

I’m shelving the promoted retrospective exhibition I proposed for Oxford Street in February 2025 titled “SUNSHINE”. Looking around our world this proposed retrospective is too early for February 2025. Presently it’s like pushing s—t uphill and that’s just silliness. People are too busy clinging on desperately to their individual passions to even bother looking at what any message that art might be trying to say anyway. We need to be in a space to listen or want to see a better world for ourselves and that is not evident presently.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. 

It's making those ideas a reality is where the difficulty comes in.

I have commented in my Resume using Jørn Utzon as an example saying “The opera house is a reminder that big challenges come with a high price on many levels. …  …we are now living in times where … majorly impacting original creative undertaking(s) cannot be made real unless people are prepared to share more of the responsibility in life. Leaders such as Utzon cannot do what they need to do without enough of the right support...more so in these prioritised self preserving times." 

The aggressive Capitalist model has had its day and a new direction is painfully emerging.

Is the key problem that too many “think” they know themselves? 

Have we become our passions forgetting ourselves in the process?

If the great storm of self indulgent ignorance that is presently rising is any indicator it would seem so. 

We’re on a path to find out what is really important to us.

When we want something bad enough we put in the effort that is needed.

Love is far more rewarding than the suffering the world is putting itself through presently.

Let the storm pass.

It's not a matter of "US" and "THEM". It's a matter of a whole lot of confused people who are racing around in ever diminishing circles carrying a whole lot of unnecessary baggage that is wearing them out. LET GO.

And you might wonder why over 30% of the Australian population has sought mental health help in recent times!

We are not going anywhere until we each find the courage to lead our own life. 

And that is a matter of letting Life run us. - Neville ☺︎

What is your vision for YOO?

👋 Celebrate yoo!

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FOOTNOTE:

The NEW DIRECTION Editor is presently focussing more on creating artworks 

and so entries on this blog will be less frequent for a period.

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ADDENDUM

⬇️ MEDIA LETTER GROWING PAIN? 

 ORIGINAL LETTER

From: Neville Williams <n.b.williams@optusnet.com.au>

Subject: WHERE HAS THAT LIGHT ON THE HILL GONE? DREAMING OF BETTER THINGS TO COME

Date: 26 October 2024 at 2:38:31 pm AEDT

To: Letters Editor THE DAILY TELEGRAPH <letters@dailytelegraph.com.au>

Dear Editor,

WHERE HAS THAT LIGHT ON THE HILL GONE?

DREAMING OF BETTER THINGS TO COME

Thank you to the Minns Government for continuing the work of Bob Carr and his NSW Government to plan a redevelopment of the Sydney Olympic Park site into the future. 

(The Saturday Telegraph Oct. 26 “NEW LIFE FOR DEADSVILLE”)

It is acknowledged that our current values system has well and truly entrenched in our thinking dealing with immediate economic and political necessities (particularly in these fractious and uncertain times). 

I’m just dreaming of a day when we might be able to re-evaluate and re-orientate ourselves and place our humanity first for a change.

Looking around our World presently even beyond Sydney or NSW there is great uncertainty, fear, anger and a lot of loss and grief being processed. The world we knew is now gone and people are in fact I believe desperate for reassurance that we are in the process of making a better world for ourselves. And the rude awakening, the new reality and shock for people is that we have to do this for ourselves!

But we do appear to be so very lost and disconnected from our very selves presently. 

It would be visionary for a Minns Government to fulcrum into the plans that go on show this week a World Expo centred here at the Sydney Olympics site that deals with addressing real issues in a worried and “deadsville” world.

The theme of our Expo might be "Reconnection to our world environment, each other but most importantly ourselves”. 

Expo’s exist to explore, investigate, discover and showcase new ways to see and do things.

A Sydney World Expo hand in hand with the 2032 Brisbane Olympics would give a major springboard towards the Minns Vision here in Sydney and provide a pointer towards a better world in a bigger picture sense.

Labor Party political Elders only this last week have been calling for the need for this “bigger picture” to shine. 

Where has that light on the hill gone?

Rather than a racecourse in the Brickpit I'd rather see around the perimeter of the Brickpit a “World University of the Environment” where our best come to gather, learn and seed our planet with a better future. That would be one of the lasting legacies of a Sydney World Expo.

Of course it is going to cost something. You get nothing worthwhile for nothing.

Do we want to make and see the hope for a better future or continue to walk around in ever diminishing circles lost in a dark world of our own making?

Kind regards, Neville Williams is a Sydney Artist

cc NSW Premier Chris Minns

     NSW Minister for Planning Paul Scully

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