As summer settles in around us - I am sequestered in my studio playing, playing, playing. I'm making messes and am enjoying it so very much. With time floating around me and very little that I have to attend to I'm letting my imagination take me where it wants to go.
I love not having deadlines or feeling that I have to be working. I have inventory on hand for an upcoming show so I don't feel compelled to be churning out work. My new thrust is to create some new-to-me beaded figures using beaded faces and/or embroidered faces. I've practiced with both and am about to the point where I think I can dive in and actually create something I can live with.
Another goal that I have is to create some new-to-me body patterns and shapes and designs. The process for this is very time consuming -- everything has to be just right --I have to decide how the all important head is going to be placed before I design the body-- I have to know whether the figure is going to hang or stand or sit or walk (just kidding about the walking)!
"To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now". - Samuel Beckett
This post sounds like the quintessential summer is about to unfold...what FUN, no deadlines, just playing with that "joyful mess"! Having a little green moment of envy over here :>]
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