Over the past two years, I have been disconnected from teaching and from commercial aspirations. This has led me to question motives and to ask why continue? In a round about way, this question was given to me when I posted one of my recent pictures on Google+. A person I did not know asked (I think sincerely) why I had made the work. I said something to the effect of 'for the enjoyment of making it'. In this case, the artwork did not have to make sense or be pretty. It was something that I wanted to experience and see.
For the time being, there is no rush, no need to make lots of pictures, and no one is asking to hang artwork on a wall for others to see. Sometimes I glue paper to paper and keep at it out of an unexplainable need to keep moving. Other times I feel like I am tending a garden because sustanance and transendant connections can be found in the order of artmaking. For the better, I continue.
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Work in progress, "Coat of Arms", 2015 |
4 comments:
Your words are sustenance for the soul Kip. Come visit us in Virginia Beach.
Thank you for reading Paul. I hope our paths cross sometime soon.
Very personal sharing. Thank you.
Very personal sharing. Thank you.
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