In between making my doodles…
I’ve been having deep thinks about how to keep a creative life going at a time when uncertainty is in such sharp focus.
The future has always been uncertain. We all know this…still, it’s so easy to ignore it. We easily turn our daydreams into plans. We get ready…we order supplies, save dates, and pennies while gulping down refreshing glasses of hope that it will all work out. Sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes a pandemic changes everything.
This makes us both fabulously human and diligent students of disappointment. There is a magic place of balance between the two that I’m always trying to find.
My go-to for deep thinks is my little garden. I’ve been studying my tulips in lowlight mode with my camera. Following the process of things falling apart.
Watching the fire in the petals fold up into swirl sculptures.
Seeing that single drop of water rise from the green skeleton…like a tear ready to weep.
Or, maybe it’s breaking free and making plans…to find its way back to the ocean!
I’m not sure yet;)
I’ll miss seeing you all this spring since the open studio is understandably postponed…but I’m making plans to see you in September. Go ahead mark your calendar…September 19th & 20th!
Wishing you beauty & be well in all things!
“I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty every day.”
“Everything changed in a matter of minutes
And nothing was saved in time
All of my old world and all the things in it are hard to find
But they never never never were mine”
“We are survivors of immeasurable events,
Flung upon some reach of land,
Small, wet miracles without instructions,
Only the imperative of change.”
