Catch and release
This was “Escape”. This was a small piece, probably 8″ x 8″, and until yesterday, it was the most important work of art I had ever created. “Escape” was a visual representation of something like 9 months (I’m really not sure how long) of a debilitating depression. It was a great piece on many levels, and after two years, I threw it away.
As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, “Never Enough Payback” speaks to a very terrible part of my youth, the starting point of a secret river that infiltrated the layers of an otherwise happy, successful, “joie de vive” sort of life. It’s a part of my life that I have tried to expel for years, forever. This piece won’t be the last, but it was a great start. And I cut it into tiny pieces yesterday.
It was good.
Filed under: change, collage, creative process, deconstruction, journaling, mosaic, payback, secrets, sexuality on July 11th, 2008
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