1.21.2010
Back in the (sewing machine) saddle
12.29.2009
It's resolution time again
I am a total sucker for resolutions. I have high hopes, I guess; or maybe it's just that I find the clean slate of a new year an irresistible opportunity to achieve great things--or to think about achieving great things, anyway.
So I'm sorting through my long mental list of ideas and projects that play the harp strings of my soul, in hopes of pinpointing the reasonable few I may accomplish this year. Thus far I have the following:
1. Learn the process for encaustic painting.
2. Submit the fabric art journal I just completed to Somerset Studios.
3. Build up the flimsy stock in my Etsy shop.
4. Post to my blog at least once a week.
5. (This one has not crystallized.) Create a year-long project by doing one fabric collage square a week all year long. Assemble as installation art when finished. Perhaps 6x6" per square?
6. Try some of the techniques in my giant collection of mixed-media art magazines.
7. Go to ArtFiberFest this summer.
If I were actually more of a planner I might take these goals apart one by one, map out my micro-movements in days and weeks, and applaud myself for my ingenuity and verve. However, I am much too haphazard for all of that. Instead I will tack these ideas into my subconscious in the form of a blog post. Next year I'll check back, and I bet that I will have done at least four of these seven goals. Maybe more. Maybe all.
Yeah, I guess that's where I stand with resolutions. I don't really resolve to do any of these things. Instead, I just kind of aim myself in the right direction.
We all know the old saw about aiming for the stars, and landing on the moon. I've landed on a couple of moons that way. I recommend it.
So I'm sorting through my long mental list of ideas and projects that play the harp strings of my soul, in hopes of pinpointing the reasonable few I may accomplish this year. Thus far I have the following:
1. Learn the process for encaustic painting.
2. Submit the fabric art journal I just completed to Somerset Studios.
3. Build up the flimsy stock in my Etsy shop.
4. Post to my blog at least once a week.
5. (This one has not crystallized.) Create a year-long project by doing one fabric collage square a week all year long. Assemble as installation art when finished. Perhaps 6x6" per square?
6. Try some of the techniques in my giant collection of mixed-media art magazines.
7. Go to ArtFiberFest this summer.
If I were actually more of a planner I might take these goals apart one by one, map out my micro-movements in days and weeks, and applaud myself for my ingenuity and verve. However, I am much too haphazard for all of that. Instead I will tack these ideas into my subconscious in the form of a blog post. Next year I'll check back, and I bet that I will have done at least four of these seven goals. Maybe more. Maybe all.
Yeah, I guess that's where I stand with resolutions. I don't really resolve to do any of these things. Instead, I just kind of aim myself in the right direction.
We all know the old saw about aiming for the stars, and landing on the moon. I've landed on a couple of moons that way. I recommend it.
12.23.2009
11.19.2009
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