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By expert author Timi Takács,
Art Coach, Self-Awareness Mentor, Educator, Visual Artist
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes
Understanding Letting Go, Transformation and New Beginnings
Letting go is often imagined as a single decision, yet behind it there is often a long, quiet process of rearrangement taking place. Art has a unique way of connecting with this transitional period, because it can make space both for what is already fading and for what is only beginning to take shape within us as a faint possibility.
Dance of the Sails (after Gleb Goloubetski, freely interpreted) Timi Takacs Artwork
Our Lives Are Full of Small Goodbyes
We like to talk about new beginnings because we associate them with hope, possibility and moving forward, while it is much harder to find words for the period that comes directly before them. I am thinking of that peculiar space in between, when we can already feel that something has changed, yet we cannot quite see where our path leads next.
We often associate letting go with loss, yet it can appear in our lives in many more forms than that. We may let go of an old role, an idea of what we should be like, a previous way of life, a job, a relationship, a familiar rhythm, or even the image of ourselves that we have held on to for years.
On the Adriatic Coast Timi Takacs Artwork
Some of these are major, life-changing transformations, while others are almost imperceptible, and we only understand their significance later.
For me, letting go is therefore primarily a process of transformation, one that requires time, attention and, often, considerable patience.
The Female Experience of Letting Go
The female life journey carries many natural transitions, during which previous roles and identities can take on new meanings. Becoming an adult, motherhood, children growing up and becoming independent, changes in relationships, professional reinvention, questions that arise in midlife, or the physical and emotional experience of the passing of time can all bring the realisation that something that once fitted us perfectly may now feel too restrictive.
A White Lighthouse in the Distance Timi Takacs Artwork
Moreover, many women have several stories unfolding alongside one another. While someone is building something in one area of her life, she may simultaneously be saying goodbye in another; while new professional opportunities are opening up before her, a previous family role may be changing at home. The joy of a new chapter can therefore easily coexist with nostalgia for the old one, just as a sense of freedom can appear alongside uncertainty.
This is precisely what makes transition human. Our emotions do not need to exclude one another in order to be valid. We can be happy about what is arriving while missing what we are leaving behind; we can long for change while still holding on to what has provided us with security for a long time. Letting go may become easier when we stop trying to live through it faster than we are actually able to.
India Gate – The Gate of Dreams. Timi Takacs Artwork
The In-Between Space We Tend to Skip
Our modern culture particularly likes stories about new beginnings. A new job, a new home, a new business, a new way of life, a new self – as though the most important moment of change were the point at which we once again know where we are heading.
Yet the new often takes shape precisely during the period when, on the surface, nothing seems to be happening. There is a point at which we can no longer return to the old in quite the same way, while we do not yet have enough experience of the new. This state can feel uncertain, yet it can also be incredibly fertile, because suddenly questions appear where familiar answers used to be.
The Mysterious Torii Gate Timi Takacs Artwork
What is important to me now?
What would I like to carry forward from what is behind me?
What has already served its purpose?
What kind of life would I like to move towards?
Questions like these rarely respond well to haste.
Paintings as Companions During Times of Transition
Perhaps this is why transitional states fascinate me so much as an artist. A painting can be present beside us without asking us to make a decision, while leaving room for its meaning to change along with us.
It may happen that we see the same painting very differently during a difficult period than we do several months later. At first, perhaps we notice the darker tones; later, a small bright detail catches our attention, and then, suddenly, we feel that the painting as a whole means something different to us. The painting itself has not changed – only we have.
This is one of the reasons why, for me, art can be such a special companion during the transitions of life. We can return to a painting and, each time we encounter it, observe what we see in it now.
The Painter Timi Takacs Artwork
In this way, a painting becomes a kind of visual point of reference, alongside which our own inner movement becomes perceptible. In my own work, I am often fascinated by the moment when two states exist at the same time: light and shadow, strength and sensitivity, movement and stillness, closure and something that is not yet possible to name.
For me, the most interesting things happen in these spaces in between.
The Role of Time and Patience
The creation of a painting also requires patience. There are layers that need to dry before I can continue working on them, and there are paintings that I have to put aside for a while because I cannot yet see where they want to go next.
Eternal Timelessness Timi Takacs Art
If I force myself to continue at such a point, I can easily lose what has already emerged on the canvas. Often, it is more helpful to step back, allow the painting to rest, and then return to it later with fresh eyes. The changes in our lives may require a similar kind of patience.
Some decisions are made quickly, while some inner transformations need a longer period of maturation. Waiting is part of the process too, because sometimes it is precisely what creates the distance from which we can look differently at something that we previously saw from too close a distance.
Perhaps one of the most important experiences of letting go is precisely that we do not have to fill every empty space immediately. Before a new beginning, there may be a period that does not yet have a name, a shape or a clear direction, and it is still a fully meaningful part of our lives.
Water Lilies Timi Takacs Artwork
What Do We Keep from What We Let Go Of?
When we talk about letting go, it is easy to think as though we have to leave everything behind, yet there is so much we can carry forward from a chapter of life that is coming to an end. Experiences, relationships, knowledge, memories, realisations, or perhaps an inner strength that could only have emerged because we walked that particular path.
In this sense, a new beginning is not a completely blank canvas either. The previous layers are invisibly present upon it. I may repaint certain parts of a picture, some colours may disappear, others may transform, yet it is often the underlying layers that give it the depth without which the final image would be entirely different.
Perhaps the same is true of us.
A Short Art Coaching Exercise – What I Carry Forward…
Choose two picture cards from the Colourful Feelings card set. Let the first image represent the stage of life, state or quality that you are moving away from in some way, and let the second represent the one you would like to move towards.
Colours Dancing on Water. Timi Takacs Artwork
Place the two images next to each other, leaving a small empty space between them. Notice all three parts: what is behind you, what you are moving towards, and the space between the two.
Then reflect on the following questions:
1. What is something I definitely want to carry forward as a value from what is now coming to an end or transforming?
2. What strength of mine has already helped me successfully navigate a change in the past?
3. What is already present in my life from the state I would like to move towards?
4. What would be the first sign that the new chapter of my life has slowly begun?
5. What is one small, realistic step I can take while still respecting my own pace?
Finally, take a look at the empty space you have left between the two cards. Perhaps this is the most important message of the exercise right now, because it reminds us that there can be space for us between two chapters of life, and that this space in between can have its own value too.
Bringing art into helping processes shows me time and again that transformation takes time. The layers of a painting do not disappear simply because new ones are added; they continue to live in the depth of the image, contributing to what it ultimately becomes.
Human stories also preserve their earlier layers.
If you are curious about my paintings, perhaps this time it is worth looking at them without searching for the one that is the most beautiful to you. Instead, notice which painting most strongly allows you to discover the moment of transformation, and which one makes you feel that something is coming to an end while something else is already quietly taking shape.
You may find yourself drawn to a completely different painting from the one you would have chosen at first glance, and perhaps this is also one of the most beautiful experiences of letting go: as we allow something to move on, the space for what comes next slowly becomes free.
A painting’s story begins on the canvas, but it continues to be written in the viewer. And from here, our own story continues too.
Colourful Moods. Art Cards by Timi Takacs
If you ever look through my paintings or my hand-painted Creative Image Cards, perhaps it is worth putting aside for a moment the question of which one you like best, and instead observing which one holds your gaze for just a little longer.
A painting’s story begins on the canvas, but in the viewer it continues to be written. And from there, our own story continues, too.
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With love,
Your Soul-Lifter
Timi Takács
Art Coach, Self-awareness Mentor
Life, Child & Youth Coach
Creator of the Takács Art-Coaching Method ©
Author of “Inner Treasure Chest”
Visual Artist
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You can read the interview with Timi Takács here:
Timi Takács Creative Journey: From Finance to Art
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