Monday: a visit to Missouri Bend Studio....what's happening...thoughts, images and/or inspiration!
Tuesday: A Walk Through The Universe, a feature which is changing format and focus. We'll look at a different color throughout the month, changing the lens each week...art, nature, history...who knows!
Wednesday: Word of the Week
Thursday: Made By Hand, a feature that honors the folks that continue the tradition of the handmade object.
Friday: Another visit to Missouri Bend Studio
After a week away from home over the Christmas holiday, it took me most of last week to feel like I was caught up again and now life's usual twists and turns are coming back into play...never a dull moment as they say. I've had a little time in the studio and have been continuing to make the book pages and some meditation pages.
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| Winter Meditation No.7 I find that these are the works my hands want to mak, as I strive to pare down to the essentials. How can I say without speaking....is it possible to communicate beyond language in a way that doesn't require translation? I think my deepest desire is to make work that can't be translated....except as an expression of the unsayable. The word that keeps coming to mind as I spend time in the studio these days is "elegance" and I suppose it is the word that captures the state to which I aspire...in my life, in my thoughts, in my movements, in my work. The universe is incredibly vibrant and complex and yet, underneath it all, is there not a profound elegance in everything we cast our eyes upon...in every breath we take? |
Yeh, i think elegance is in everything. Good luck with your new schedule.
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A beautiful start to the new year Patti - this is a sweet, refined and elegant piece. I think most/all of your work is elegant - it reflects a fineness (new word) of form, line, colour. I like to think of it as elegant simplicity - something that I too strive for.
ReplyDeleteLovely to gaze upon!
T...nice to hear from you....hope you have a wonderful year!
ReplyDeleteFiona...thank you! Your work is very elegant...I'm sure that's why I was drawn to it initially! Cheers!
ReplyDeleteSimple elegance is one of my ambitions too - but I guess that's the problem right there - to me, that kind of fine work can't be achieved by striving, but seems to appear out of no effort whatsoever, the kind of wise hand that can make a single mark and have it mean both everything and nothing, the perfect essence of the unsayable. I am more of the sweat-and-fret type of maker, always at risk of overexplaining or overworking something for fear of not getting it just right. It takes a lot of instinct, patience and trust to arrive at elegance! Here's to letting go and letting be, beautifully.
ReplyDeleteGabriella....yes, you're right, it takes a long, long time to develop the trust that allows you to let go. Maybe it does come more naturally for some people, but I know it took me about twenty years of being an artist before I began to trust my own voice...it's an ongoing process...an always entails a struggle with the "selves"! I bet you will have an amazing year surprising yourself with your own level of trust in the process!
ReplyDeletewhat a lovely goal for the year Patti...and that title...a year of elegance is a delight.
ReplyDeleteMmm... treasuring the handmade object is also such a lovely thing... wishing you abundant blessings for 2011!
Sophie