Monday, October 10, 2011

My big idea

My big idea is to give enough information for my viewer to enter their own re-discovered inner world, but not too much.
Not too much information. The viewer needs to discover it.
I also want to remind the viewer that life is short, art is long.
A wabi sabi kind of thing. I want the work to hold its own destruction,
but the holding, the touching,
the idea of nurturance and
reparation
will also be present.
It's almost a spiritual thing. A belief.
A faith.
That we will go on.
Not knowing what lies ahead, we do go on.

11 comments:

Ms. said...

This one has me in tears--not weeping--the quivering edge of feeling both joy and sadness simultaneously--leaves one balancing on the eternal precipice of being terribly alive in the here and now. What a big, powerful post from your powerhouse big artists heart.

Discovery Cloth said...

wow, so perfectly stated. I am new to the eco-dying and am truly loving the unknown. The magic is all around us!

Anonymous said...

yes. this is beautiful.

Mary Beth Frezon said...

This reminds me of some of my most favorite antique quilts - the ones that are covered with leaves and clearly the maker used real leaves she picked up, or the ones with all the little household items - captured arrays of life.

Anonymous said...

There are many big ideas here...

ELFI said...

superbe idée.. et le résultat est incroyablement beau!

Velma Bolyard said...

i like your big idea, mostly because it's true...but also because i go on, for now, anyway.

Anonymous said...

i love this post so much

Anonymous said...

yes, it's that time of year, a time of reflection. let the leaves fall where they may.

Caterina Giglio said...

so beautiful, so perfectly imperfect...

Marta Brysha said...

Stunning!