Expressive Arts Carnival

Although new to blogging, we feel fortunate to have found other multiples and those who are supportive, here on the web. One of the sites we value is Mind Parts, and this month, Paul of Mind Parts is hosting the second Expressive Arts Carnival. The assignment: to create an abstract art piece through any visual means that depicts all or part of the internal world.

Here is our submission, and an explanation below:

We have a special room inside we call the library. It's quite possibly a cliché, but it's ours. A brightly-lit fireplace, always burning as if it's the spark to our soul, flanked by floor-to-ceiling bookcases. Knowledge is power. Above the fireplace, a view of much of the rest of inside: hallways leading to our individual rooms, where we can close the door to the world. Yet we are never really alone. Always there are those inside who watch and wait. And alone, in the spotlight, the child we were, the innocence we lost. Despite the warmth of the fire, the lure of retreat and sweet oblivion, there is pain. A bloody hand print, evoking a sudden gasp, a gut-clenching aversion that leaves its stamp on our reality. To survive, we had to rally together, the inner family.