"Today's confession: I'm having a love affair with this piece. Can't get enough of it-my gaze is never long enough. It's as if it's been made outside the usual way I make things and has been “given” to me. “Did I make this?”.
It has all the elements of what I've been working on. It speaks of beauty and a liveliness that's just way fun to do. It's also done in a freeing mode of not trying to accomplish anything. I love the color, the form of the leaf prints and the drawing into that, that is wildness.
That's been the theme of all of this latest work but this one speaks to me more deeply....like there's an intimacy of life in it, the intimacy I'm moving towards. An intimacy that is also mysterious and unpredictable.
So the confession is that I'm uncomfortable posting about things that feel undone, incomplete and messy. I'm also uncomfortable posting about perfection and what I love; my heart skips a beat or two at the very thought of being out there with this.
And yet....only sort of!!!
At the very same time, there's no stopping me...I'm all in and make no qualms about any of it. I love all the messiness, all the uncertainty and I f___ing love the beauty that just flows out of me."
Last fall I decided that a really great project for my personal and spiritual development would be to get out there on Facebook. Phew, really?!!
It was time to push myself, my thoughts, curiosities and creative wanderings out of the closet and into the light, not easy for certain parts of my "personality". But as you'll see in my first post below, I knew it was just the thing for me; to get things moving, stirred up and interestingly enough, to feed that part of me that does love to be seen!!
I made the first post on November 17th 2015. You'll see the pieces below. The top three are what I posted on FB and then the rest are added here, reflecting the whole process of getting into the flow.
The process usually involves mono printing with the Gelli plate using leaves and collage and pastel and paint in a random and more physical process of just putting things down.
Here's the post:
"I was inspired by the way my friend LeeAnn Mallory started a recent post with “I confess” and so I will start this post with that.
I confess that I am extremely uncomfortable posting anything here that feels meaningful. There's that exposure/vulnerability element. Because of that, I labor over what's said or put out there-it must be “perfect”!
But since it's a big deal for me these days to let myself and my passions be seen, here goes.
My latest realizations are about being intimate, which to me means being all in on whatever is up at the moment. No holding back. Intimate with life.
So I won't “hold back” with some recent art work. These pieces are part of my recent series that are about what can happen when I just make something without deciding whether they are “good” or “bad” or “done”. I'll let the viewer make those decisions.
Instead of saying anything more to qualify them, I'll just post them.
More confessions to follow, on what topics I can't say just now.....".
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