1. To be more sincere in my artwork.
what does that even mean? for me, it means, making work that i feel connected with and to. Artwork that has meaning other than to be something people can look at and say "that's pretty". i want people to think...to actually think...I realize that in this day and age where everyone is more and more bombarded with social media,and our kids are growing up to be overwhelmed by the world of immediacy, creating something that causes people to pause...might be a difficult sell...but, i'm willing to take that chance...this is something feel very passionate about....I feel that instant gratification is a plague on our society...i'm not willing to play into that anymore...i want people to think...to think deeply...and to think richly...to ponder, to breathe...and meditate...to mull over...to feel calm...and to build new synapses....to feel peace...and to actually use that grey squishy stuff between their ears for something other than how to level-up....
2. i want my artwork to be a place of meditation....for me as the artist....and for the viewer... it is only recently that i have started to really study meditation...and only recently that my understanding of its' purpose and what it is have come to light for me...and i feel at peace with the idea that my work can also reflect this...
3.i would like to create higher quality work....in the past, i have felt such a desperate need to create, using anything i could get my hands on...so i would keep all kinds of stuff...almost to the point of hoarding art supplies just to have things on hand...i have found that it was because of my fear of never getting to create that i felt such a lack...and would accumulate anything to be used at a later date...that is over....i refuse to create inferior quality work anymore...it will be archival, it willbe high quality, or nothing at all...it will be particular...
4. my studio will be organized and kid friendly...i have two children...a brilliant ten year old and a spitfire tornado toddler...both a creative geniuses...the ten year old, is my contemplative soul...he took over my easel at two and often will sit and draw on his own...my toddler, never stops moving...and is the reason my studio is off limits right now...i had purged and organized my studio months ago when she started being able to move around freely...and in those months things have been moved...up...higher and higher...to the point where there is no surface to work on...and nothing is safe..ever..because she will get into it all...and it becomes a nightmare...this isn't how i want my studio to be...i want it to be simple, organized, kid friendly, and safe...for all of us...that will come with the next purging and simplification of the studio...
these are my art resolutions...they are simple...not very exciting...but, they are mine...and i am excited about them....
what does that even mean? for me, it means, making work that i feel connected with and to. Artwork that has meaning other than to be something people can look at and say "that's pretty". i want people to think...to actually think...I realize that in this day and age where everyone is more and more bombarded with social media,and our kids are growing up to be overwhelmed by the world of immediacy, creating something that causes people to pause...might be a difficult sell...but, i'm willing to take that chance...this is something feel very passionate about....I feel that instant gratification is a plague on our society...i'm not willing to play into that anymore...i want people to think...to think deeply...and to think richly...to ponder, to breathe...and meditate...to mull over...to feel calm...and to build new synapses....to feel peace...and to actually use that grey squishy stuff between their ears for something other than how to level-up....
2. i want my artwork to be a place of meditation....for me as the artist....and for the viewer... it is only recently that i have started to really study meditation...and only recently that my understanding of its' purpose and what it is have come to light for me...and i feel at peace with the idea that my work can also reflect this...
3.i would like to create higher quality work....in the past, i have felt such a desperate need to create, using anything i could get my hands on...so i would keep all kinds of stuff...almost to the point of hoarding art supplies just to have things on hand...i have found that it was because of my fear of never getting to create that i felt such a lack...and would accumulate anything to be used at a later date...that is over....i refuse to create inferior quality work anymore...it will be archival, it willbe high quality, or nothing at all...it will be particular...
4. my studio will be organized and kid friendly...i have two children...a brilliant ten year old and a spitfire tornado toddler...both a creative geniuses...the ten year old, is my contemplative soul...he took over my easel at two and often will sit and draw on his own...my toddler, never stops moving...and is the reason my studio is off limits right now...i had purged and organized my studio months ago when she started being able to move around freely...and in those months things have been moved...up...higher and higher...to the point where there is no surface to work on...and nothing is safe..ever..because she will get into it all...and it becomes a nightmare...this isn't how i want my studio to be...i want it to be simple, organized, kid friendly, and safe...for all of us...that will come with the next purging and simplification of the studio...
these are my art resolutions...they are simple...not very exciting...but, they are mine...and i am excited about them....
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