Five Senses

I’m late on this, thanks to jury duty this week, but this was the Inspire Me Thursday challenge for the last week –

This week’s challenge involves some sensory exploration: Can you use all five of your senses in your creative process?

This piece used color, for sight, of course, salt, sugar and vanilla in the painting process, for taste and smell, touch/texture with paper towels and napkins for blotting and my hands which ALWAYS get in the paint somehow, and for hearing, the silence (Aah!) since nobody was up making noise this morning when I did this. And, the Tao quote relates too, of course.

The five colours blind the eye.
The five tones deafen the ear.
The five flavours dull the taste.
Racing and hunting madden the mind.
Precious things lead one astray.
Therefore the sage is guided by what he feels and not by what he sees.
He lets go of that and chooses this.
Ta Te Ching, 12