Although I no
doubt love a good studio day where I'm getting dirty and pouring inks and
paints, selecting twigs or firing up the blowtorch – I also relish some
"couch time" with my sketchbook, stack of art books, and iPad, taking
time to consider my next series of group of works. I look at all the
plans for pieces I have yet to make in my sketchbook, images collected from
other artists whose I admire, and try and figure out what it is I should be
doing exactly at this point in life, career, and the state of mind I'm in.
I have a lot of delicious big tasks in front of me, and I took the
afternoon to sit down and organize my thoughts, crank some good tunes (the goo
goo dolls were calling me this afternoon), sketch out some ideas, look at past
plans that I could incorporate in, and allowed myself to cruise Pinterest for a
short time.
There is a total
freedom in imagining things, and you're not delayed by drying time, technical
difficulties, or supply concerns. Just free reign, working as fast as your
mind can imagine! It’s glorious. I just try to keep up in my
sketchbook (although I always fall short), capturing as much as
possible on the page.
I leave
energized and ready to tackle the next big thing.
Which is what??
Assemblage/ totems is where I’m at. I have always said I
keep a toe in sculpture, and now I guess you could say I'm
up to my ankles. Most are still wall hangings, but they will be much more
sculptural, and able to incorporate (I hope) in a cohesive spiritual way all the
natural materials I've been working with all summer on my fairy houses,
panels of paintings, and shapes of textured surfaces that could
be anything for encaustic to acrylic to ceramic. It think
it’s a good way for me to merge all my interests into one. When I look
back- I have been going back to "totem stacking" for over
20 years- I made a large paper cast from a clay sculpture in
grad school, I made a totem vertical rectangular series 10? years back,
tiny assemblages last year, so now the seems like the right time
for this next progression of my work!
So I started pulling out my works in progress, lumber, found objects and played with them, stacking, selecting arranging....
Here's the "roughs" on the floor....
Stay tuned!
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