Equilibrium perfectly captures the theme this week for my 52 Cards Project. I spent so much time trying to just keep my balance, creatively. The winds of self doubt came for me. What am I doing? Why am I doing it? Does it even matter?
So I felt a little wobbly.
But I know what was happening. I’ve been working
Read MoreAs soon as this line came to me last week I knew I had my theme for the week.
Art making is kind of like skipping stones, right? Throw a flat stone across the smooth surface of a river and watch one idea become the next and the next…and then watch them ripple out.
I spent most of my week last week experimenting and playing and not doing much else. I created figures in different ways, some in ink and colored pencil, some paper cut outs, some watercolor, some collage. And then the acrylics came out and I found myself painting abstracts. I was kind of all over the place.
I can’t say I knew what I was doing—or even that I was comfortable with what often felt out of control.
Here’s what I wrote in my journal:
Read MoreTen weeks into my 52 Cards Project! This week my card expresses all my sadness for Ukraine and all the innocents in the world who get caught up in pain and violence, war and death. So senseless. My heart bleeds.
Whenever I think of war, I think of what Eckhart Tolle says about humans in A New Earth:
Read More“The collective manifestations of the insanity that lies at the heart of the human condition constitute the greater part of human history. It is to a large extent a history of madness. If the history of humanity were the clinical case history of a single human being, the diagnosis would have to be:
My theme for this week is difficult to explain. So much of art making is working in the dark, really. We wander around in the unknown—whatever we might create does not exist yet.
And what we create is a mysterious process of
Read MoreIt was just a Whack-a-Mole kind of week! We returned from a long weekend trip to Bellingham and there were just a lot of minor but “pesty” problems to solve. One thing after another cropped up, which meant rescheduling something else—whack—and then something else would come up—and something else. Whack! Whack! Whack!
I don’t even need to go into detail—nothing significant to report—so I think I’m actually making mountains out of molehills—but you know, the metaphor works.
As it turns out
Read MoreThis week my theme for my 52 Cards project chose me, I think.
I was hiking in Bellingham with Dennis and Valerie, and we came to a small lake where we saw a white swan floating while an eagle swooped in low circles above her.
The eagle was hunting, though by the looks of the serene swan he wasn’t going after her. The eagle looped around and then hovered in the air, swooped around again, hovered, and the funny thing was that every time it came around, something in the water started splashing.
Read MoreThe theme for this week’s card came to me one early morning as I stumbled to the kitchen for my coffee. I loaded my Keurig (filling coffee into my reusable one-cup metal filter, hit start), and then I leaned against the counter and looked around. And there was Oliver, our very loved and stubborn cat, standing at the door as he usually does at 6am.
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