I leave
Bali in five days for the shows in Tucson.
Naturally I’m trying to get as many pieces as possible finished before I go.
Down at my painting studio I have four bone pieces in various stages of
painting and many more waiting to be started. I hope to have a big enough
collection of these time consuming pieces, to make an impression.
I am
enthralled with this new direction. The creative process has revved up and so
it’s difficult to leave it when the energy is thrilling. When I return to Bali
in two months, I know I won’t be able to just jump into it again but will have
to reenter slowly. That’s the way the
process works for me.
I’ve
learned a lot in the last year and know I’ve just scratched the surface. I see other people coloring bone today so
it’s not unique. In fact the Ancient
Greeks colored ivory carvings as did the Chinese, Japanese, and Gothic
Europeans. But coloring already
beautiful mammoth tusk seems a sacrilege and so I use the white of bone as my
canvas. And I hope what I do will be different from others.
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| My Beading Table with Two Projects in Waiting |
Sometimes
I wake at night with color schemes dancing across my imagination. I pray they’ll still be there when I get up
in the morning. This is what I live for
- to be on fire with creativity. I lie
awake and think of the beads I’ll string a piece with and new ideas pop in and
out of consciousness.
For
some reason it seems I’m at the height of creativity just before I have to
leave it all and fly somewhere else. Is it coincidence? Or is the approaching
departure stirring the pot of ideas with now or never? All I know is that I’ll be back down at the
painting studio tomorrow morning to complete the four waiting pieces.
How
does this work for you?
