This sounds so great. To recognise that there are people on your life, who become voices in your head, who might not like what you actually want to make for yourself. And then to go ahead and make it anyway, that is thrilling! Your work is really vibrant and exciting.
I think there can be power in both sharing/releasing work as well as power in keeping/holding it. In the end the process and the artifacts of the process are ours.
I find the process of making can be freeing for me and sometimes it’s a slough and it’s the releasing that lets me move on a feel or understand what I am trying for to discover through making.
It has also been helpful for me to write and find connections between the things I make that I might not find through making them.
Hi - I love this, this articulates some of my feelings on the making and sharing that I find hard to explain. I think the writing (which I find the harder thing to do) has been very helpful in also helping me accept some things and where I am now, the last few days in my art practice I feel I have let go of some preoccupations, really got into the process, so perhaps it was worth toiling over trying to explain my thinking in my numerous drafts. thank you for sharing, Sonia
Thank you for your words! I feel the struggle but I've been following your notes and i think you are doing great, i really enjoy your work (fellow fine arts artist here btw)
This sounds so great. To recognise that there are people on your life, who become voices in your head, who might not like what you actually want to make for yourself. And then to go ahead and make it anyway, that is thrilling! Your work is really vibrant and exciting.
So happy to have found your Substack ! Please continue to share and create. I’m inspired ! ❤️
Thank you !! Really appreciate it !
I love your sense of color. Thank you for sharing these very interesting pieces and sketches.
Hi , thank you !!!
You are quite welcome
Your work is beautiful, thank you for sharing! 💥
I think there can be power in both sharing/releasing work as well as power in keeping/holding it. In the end the process and the artifacts of the process are ours.
I find the process of making can be freeing for me and sometimes it’s a slough and it’s the releasing that lets me move on a feel or understand what I am trying for to discover through making.
It has also been helpful for me to write and find connections between the things I make that I might not find through making them.
Hi - I love this, this articulates some of my feelings on the making and sharing that I find hard to explain. I think the writing (which I find the harder thing to do) has been very helpful in also helping me accept some things and where I am now, the last few days in my art practice I feel I have let go of some preoccupations, really got into the process, so perhaps it was worth toiling over trying to explain my thinking in my numerous drafts. thank you for sharing, Sonia
Thank you for your words! I feel the struggle but I've been following your notes and i think you are doing great, i really enjoy your work (fellow fine arts artist here btw)
Thank you, much appreciated- it is a worthwhile struggle , but I agree art is not always easy, especially if you are trying something new, best, Sonia