Walking (cardboard-1)

I'm working on a large cardboard installation of feet walking in different places.  I photographed the large pieces and photoshopped them so I could see them all together.

Adding To The Leaf

This weeks prompt:adding or subtracting.

  

How channeling works.

I haven't posted this week because my attention has been on other things than the blog.  Today I felt I could give my full attention to the new prompt; channel.  This made me laugh.

Morning Repetition Morning Repetition

Rearranging the events of the morning made different patterns, and made me feel differently. There is a comfort, and ease(visually) in the same routine.

Morning Repetition

I realized after making this grid how a pattern is made.  Quite beautiful that our lives create these visual(and other sense)patterns.  Hmmmm....I want to explore this further.  Changing one thing, or the timing of one thing, changes the whole pattern.  Click on image to enlarge it.

Buttons For Joel

My friend Joel is making art buttons and has asked me(and apparently many others)to make art that he will form into buttons.  These are what I made for him today.  They are 2.25 in diameter.

Box Of Views

I love repeating images.  There is something comforting in drawing the same thing over and over.  The image of the box repeats, but what I notice about it changes.  Makes me think of ways I repeatedly respond to a word, or a person, or idea.  There really are so many ways to look at and define things.

2 Sides To The Story

This weeks prompt: repetition.  I've been working on a piece about responding in different ways to the same situation.  This is a small part of it.

Under Water Distortion

Experimenting what distortion might feel like under water.  Not sure this is a 'successful' animation but I am enjoying fooling around with trying to make the movement feel 'accurate'.
Looking at it now I feel a little seasick, which wasn't my intention...but maybe that's what happens when something isn't clear, it makes us a little sick.

Distorted Vegetables

If I define something as 'distorted' that implies there is a 'not distorted', a 'normal'.  But if I define that same thing as 'interesting', my mind tends to open to what's useful, beneficial, fun, 'good', about it.  Distorted can make me NOT LIKE IT  or worse HATE IT, disregard, disrespect, avoid, reject it.  'Interesting' makes me CURIOUS about it, more open to understanding it on a deeper level.  A kindness emerges from my willingness to accept the 'not normal', the different, the unfamiliar.

Distorted

Interesting

Distorted Thinking(At The Table)

We each see the world in our own way. 

Over The Edge

When I think of myself as a 'crazy person going over the edge' I can't see what else may be happening here.  Drawing a picture(however symbolic) helps me to redefine what I see.  And expands my 'distorted' thinking.  

Distorting Language

The prompt this week is 'distortion'.  Language can be easily 'distorted'.  And wreck my life! Or encourage my life!  If I say 'I am a failure', that makes me feel not so great.  And is a distorted(partial) view of me and 'reality'.
If I say 'I failed at cooking this chicken' or ' I failed at making this work of art',
my mind is more open, relaxed, I can expand on that.
'Oh I experimented, I took a risk, I made an effort, I had courage, I learned something about myself and chicken, I have a story to tell'.

On My Way Today

These are some of the parts of my 'whole' journey...