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Happy New Year's Eve. May we each become what we came here to be. I've been working on a new artist's book called Searching. It's a slow process to figure out what the book wants to be about and how to allow each page to work in it's own way while contributing to the whole. Here are some images.
Take these broken wings
and learn to fly
what am i waiting for?
still...
Some photos taken at the Paper Making workshop I took with my friend Meredith at the Santa Sabina Center on the campus of Dominican University in San Rafael, CA. So beautiful and peaceful. Some photos of the paper we made coming soon.
I love things that grow in cracks
Rocks, Leaves, Fall
Walking on my own path
Sometimes I hate technology, and sometimes I love it. The hate comes when it doesn't work the way I want it to, and I can't fix it, and I then feel incompetent, stupid, and very very frustrated. Like now. On hold to my website hosting company…again. Have bounced between them and the web authoring company. So much time wasted. OK. Not totally wasted. I downloaded three albums from iTunes while waiting. A new playlist called The Voices with albums by Christina Aguilara, Maroon 5, CeeLo Green and oh yeah Demi Lovato who is from the X Factor but, in order to not be too dated in my musical tastes, I like to give myself a chance to absorb, experience and hopefully expand my musical tastes into the year 2012. At the same time I discovered a new album by Jackson Browne whose music I've loved for…well for a very long time. Haven't listened to enough of any of this new music to give an opinion. (Will do that when I've given it several good listens). Oh, here comes the tech support guru. Only an 11 minute wait. He says he can fix my problem! Only takes a minute. He even asks if there's anything else he can help me with. I happen to have 2 more questions/issues. He addresses them too: successfully. Did I mention that I love technology? well, sometimes.
My vision of a chunk of wall you might see on a city street. Notice it says Shoot and also What You Do Matters. Other words and messages are embedded too. Haven't decided what to call it.
Another chunk of a city wall. Not sure if it's done but heaven knows there's a lot on there already.
this started out as a spread in a book, but maybe it wants to be a painting.
Caught between simplicity and complexity.
just one spread from a book with lots of pages, all unfinished. The book hasn't told me what it wants to be about. Sometimes I have to start working in the dark in order for the light to come.
Mark Bradford compares the art making process to a relationship. There's the Honeymoon when you are just in love with your own work, then you get used to each other, then you really get on each other's nerves and want to mess it up completely and throw it out, aka the break-up phase. Sometimes it is better to know when it's time to walk away. But sometimes that's the point where a new, deeper, better, richer connection can begin. I'm at the break-up stage with all my work right now. Can't decide if it's salvageable. I am actually going to the salvage yard today to look for some found object or inspiration for these pieces. It'll be sink or swim.
I'm meeting with my mentor, Ray Beldner, on Friday afternoon, so even if these pieces are disasters, I'll need to show them to him to get some feedback. I guess this is the time to remember it's all about the process and the journey and not judging.