Three page spreads from #roundrobin #bookart project I’m doing with members of my #creativesandbox community, heading off to the next collaborator!
Some of the spreads are for individual use only; others are shared with one other collaborator; and the last spread in the book is a free-for-all for everyone to contribute to. 🙂 #workinprogress #wip #originalart #mixedmedia #collage #watercolor #intuitiveart
How I Fell from 40 Feet Up and Lived to Tell About It – a Creative Courage Case Study
Years ago, the year I salsa-danced my way through my divorce, I was having tea at a friend’s house, chatting about this and that, when she casually mentioned something about her flying trapeze class.
“Flying trapeze?!” I sputtered, “You do flying trapeze?!”
I mean, it’s not every day that you meet someone who does flying trapeze, so I was beyond intrigued. I had to know more.
So she described to me how you climb a very tall ladder — 40 feet up — to a teeny, tiny platform, maybe two foot wide by five feet long, where one of the teachers snaps a rope into [Read more…]
Pushed Out of the Nest – a Creative Courage Case Study
Years ago, when I’d been doing calligraphy for less than two years, and it was still a pretty fresh, new passion for me, I flew back East to meet a friend of mine from the online calligraphy world, Sheryl, and to spend the weekend with her.
Sheryl lived in New Jersey, and she was teaching a workshop that weekend way out on Long Island, for a calligraphy guild called Island Scribes. I’d signed up to be one of the students in the workshop, so we had a long car drive ahead of us, with several joyful hours of uninterrupted conversation.
I don’t remember much about the details our conversation, except that at some point, Sheryl said to me, “You should teach.”
“Yeah,” I said, looking at my hands, “I’d love to teach someday.”
“No,” she said, “you should be teaching now.”
The Seed Is Planted
“Now?” I asked, abashed. “I’m not ready to teach yet! What could I possibly teach?”
Without batting an eye, Sheryl said, [Read more…]
Will You Make Me Sad On My Birthday? Plus Birthday Confessions
Yes, it’s my BIRTHDAY! I’m 49 today, which means I’m entering my 50th year!
(Egad, how did that happen???)
I’m not depressed about getting older, as I know many people are. Sure, it’s sobering to realize that I’ve been on the planet so many years and haven’t accomplished as much as my younger self might have dreamed…(though in other ways I’ve accomplished much more).
And it’s annoying that my knees are creakier than they used to be.
And it’s really annoying to live in an ageist culture, where I watch women become more and more invisible as we get older.
And of course, it’s also sobering to come one year closer to my mortality.
Mostly, though, I feel grateful that I’ve gotten to ride the merry-go-round for this long! And that with my years on the planet come greater wisdom, less giving a **** about what other people think, greater self-compassion. [Read more…]
Snapshot from My Studio: November 03, 2015 at 11:03PM
Detail: “desire will make you honest and attractive.” #alteredbook #bookpagepoetry #whiteoutpoetry #workinprogress #wip #originalart #mixedmedia #creativesandbox
