Emerging

It's nice to know that everything i have done in the past,even in my ceramic work, has not been all for not. Recently, I have had several ideas evolve organically from past subject matter and techniques that finally seem to have found their place and purpose in what I am doing. I went with my urge to draw in black and white to see where it would take me. I really felt that i could pour my soul into these drawings more than i ever have before. Then cam the pastel idea. Just using the black and white and some different monochromatic color schemes to evoke a certain mood in the work. My obsession with the dark silhouettes of the bare tree branches against the ever changing colors of the pale yet vibrant winter skies. The dark figure...the lost girl. These have finally all culminated into one idea for a triptych of drawings using black, white, grey and subtle hints of color. The subject matter is one that i have had with me since early college. It's one of my babies and i love it and can't let it go. I can finally interpret it the way i've been needing to.

I love this evolution of ideas and techniques that has been happening to me lately. It seems so natural and organic. It almost seems like it was meant to be, meant happen in this particular way. First, i started sculpting these dark figures and i really got to know every inch of them. The way the figures interact with each other especially. Creating them in 3D has engrained them into my brain and i understand them physically and emotionally so much more than if i had not done that. But i felt they were missing an environment and now i have that. I know where they belong. It explains the obsession with the trees and the water. The solitude of the bare tree branches in the middle of the cold nothingness of winter. The evolving skies, the dark and cold water. Now it finally all makes sense. I had to get to know each of them before I could bring them all together in harmony with each other

I am thrilled about the new ideas and I can't wait to get them down on paper. I finally got some more pastel paper last night and am eager to work. Only if my kids weren't sick!! ;)