Hereditary, How can we Define Uniqueness?

Hereditary, What makes us unique, out inside world or our outer one?

Before I started this piece of work, I was going through a huge artistic block.  I get these from time to time but this time, rather than it being me getting in the way of myself, as I so often do,  it was more about circumstances that at the time were beyond my control and affected me on a deeply personal level.  Usually I can paint throughout these types of things and was able to for a while but one day, I reached the studio and found that I just couldn’t pick up a brush.  Whatever I did wouldn’t work, nothing helped, not even the abstract side freed me so I knew that I had to walk away for a while and do something else.

I wrote instead, getting a huge amount done and whilst I was typing away I wondered how I could get into the rhythm of painting.  One morning I woke up and decided not to use either brush or palette knives but to use my fingertips and the results are now here.

Hereditary - Trac Davies©

Hereditary is about who we are.  Our finger and foot prints develop in the womb, they are unique, and they develop in the way they do due to the composition of the mother’s amniotic fluid, where we are and our movements.  No two individuals share them, not even identical twins so these are totally specific to us.  I have never met two people that are exactly the same, it just isn’t possible and fingerprints and also those of the feet are unique, they can identify us, you can’t take a print of the soul but you can of fingerprints or feet.

When I started this painting, I started with just one colour on each finger or thumb tip, as I progressed, I started using different colours and there are prints that have four or five different colours mixed up.  This is indicative that although our fingerprints are unique, they are unchanged but our ideals, ways of life, emotions, feelings, wants and needs, and intellectual capacity are ever-changing. I am not the same Tracy as I was in my youth, my young adulthood, earlier this year or even a day ago, I change but I’m still the same person that I used to be at the same time.

We are all unique and special but although our fingerprints are unchanging we cannot be defined by them.  What defines a human being is what they do, what they think and how they generally are - to others as well as themselves.  Although our unique fingerprints are fixed we are not, we shouldn't be because we do not grow unless we change.  Our own special identity is totally unique but so is the growth that comes from changing how we feel and what we think.

Without growth we stagnate but this growth and our ideas or ways of being should never take away our uniqueness, these things can only add to it thus enhance who we are and we should only be defined by our character, not by our outer self.

Suggested Links:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/fingerprint

https://www.kickassfacts.com/interesting-fingerprints-facts/

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