The Yes Project is simple: every day, for at least 30 days, I will sit down for one hour, paint/draw/collage an image of the word “Yes,” and post it here with any relevant commentary.
The long version of why I started The Yes Project is here; the short version is that I’ve spent too much of my life saying “No” to things, experiences, and states of being I genuinely wanted, strictly out of (mostly irrational and groundless) fear. Too often, my very first response to a choice or situation has been fear-based, and I’ve missed out on an awful lot because of that.
So in order to re-train myself to stop saying “No” to life out of fear, I’ve decided to embrace “Yes” instead. The Yes images I create are meant to be contemplative tools, not fine art; during the process of creating them I also think about what it would mean to say “Yes” to new things, and what the real costs have been of constantly saying “No.”
I can also be found at my primary blog, Magical Realist.
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January 5, 2009 at 6:47 am
[...] Another thing I’m going to do–for at least the next 30 days at any rate–is a little bit of inspired weirdness I call “The Yes Project.” I’ve even made a separate blog for it, and if you want an explanation, here’s the incredibly long intro post and the mercifully brief About The Yes Project page. [...]