Colors and flowers everywhere
Finally blogging. It has been difficult to focus on linear thinking with so much visual stimulus. I am collecting stones, drinking in the ever-changing light and landscape, painting and sketching. Ideas are only primordial at this point. The landscape is so breath-taking that it brought me to tears earlier today. It is unlike anything I have ever experienced. Exactly what I have been longing for on so many levels. The group is a joy -so many connections are being made – friendships, ideas, segues…
Old themes of male/female are still with me. The symbols rise to the surface wherever I go. The two belong together – inextricably linked – balanced. I guess that is and has been what I look for in my work. To use art-making as a way to balance. I know when I am not working, I am not balanced. Yet the very possibility of inactivity and not working is what allows the work to come. Permission to gestate and not produce. Very unfamiliar.
Yet, I am fighting the angst that I will not be productive – that I do not deserve this gift of freedom, beauty, laughter and connection. I need to concentrate on allowing myself to take it in.
I am very inspired by the colors here. I know that my palette willl be different – happier – deeper pinks and yellow. Virginia
