I was happy to learn that not only were three of my drawings accepted into the Marblehead Art’s Variations show, but that my drawing of knitting (whose title keeps changing…but is currently “The Mess We Are In” won first place.
Success for artists does not always result in better work being made in the future. Some artists have success with an image or a painting and then lock into that style or subject as “their thing” and fail to grow and progress. I don’t want that to happen to me, although it seems unlikely as I am too restless. As I return again and again to things like tangles, and folds and origami and the dolls I like to think that my work is always evolving and that each new piece is addressing something new and bringing a new energy or idea or emotion to it depending on what is going on in my head.
But showing up in the studio doesn’t mean something happens. Sometimes it is work. Hard work. And what get’s made really isn’t any good or maybe it is just part of the journey to something. Right now I feel a bit lost. I am drawing a crumbled piece of brown packing paper with rocks and the dolls. I am thinking about bombed apartment buildings and families huddled underground.
