The original title for this blog was “Process and Habit”. The new and much improved title means “every day is a good day”, and it was John Cage’s favorite saying.
“Music is purposeless play, an affirmation of life, not an attempt to bring order out of chaos not to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a [...]
Filed under: collecting, gathering, materials on September 14th, 2008 | No Comments »
The piece began with the collage, “Never Enough Payback” (blogged at Weeding and Never Enough Payback),but once I deconstructed the collage, it ceased to exist. Though the collage was recycled into this new work, its value changed. In pieces, it became tesserae, just as the millefiori and the smalti.
The words and images of the collage are now just [...]
Filed under: change, collage, creative process, deconstruction, growth, journaling, layers, lost, materials, mosaic, payback on July 17th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I believe an artist works because they have to. I know, if I need to be away from the studio for any length of time, I get cranky and am not nearly as effective in other areas of my life. I’ve touched on this before, and other artists have agreed with me. “Getting it out” [...]
Filed under: Hope series, creative process, exhibition, growth, layers, materials, mosaic, thoughts on July 16th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Robyn commented in a recent post, asking for details on the fab cabs… these are they. They came from Kathy Scherr at Maryland Mosaics.
Aren’t they fab? When I collected my stash from her display at SAMA, I really didn’t know for sure how I would use them, or if I even would. And then a container [...]
Filed under: creative process, materials, mosaic on July 2nd, 2008 | 2 Comments »
When I reached the second “time to wait” during the process of creating a new piece this afternoon, I decided it was time to take a woods-walk. A woods-walk is as it sounds, a walk in the woods. I usually ask my youngest, Brunello, to join me, and once he understands we’re going on a woods-walk [...]
Filed under: collecting, creative process, gathering, materials, mosaic on June 22nd, 2008 | 1 Comment »