This year has been a particularly difficult one to define when it comes to creativity in my Studio. Normally winter is very productive for me. It was not this year. At least not in the sense that I consider normal. New ideas and their prototypes begin in the Winter ...This year the difference was that I worked 'outside' my Studio. I have done more Community interaction -on behalf of Art, Art Promotion and especially for Teaching this coming Summer.
Since Spring has been as abnormal as my Winter was the work I do outside has been stymied!
This is the time that I put my prototypes and ideas on Barnwood, the days when I work outside sanding, sealing and drilling. This is the time when I sit outside on my deck and draw Spring. Normally.
I am now 'stealing' workdays from other places...housework time, grocery shopping, writing, and sad to say, I'm behind schedule...WAY behind! I now have to deal with a CALENDAR as well! Events are set and the shuffle has begun. Setting aside 'idea time' bothers me. Art cannot flourish without actively pursuing ideas and making them happen.
BUT, another thought lurks in the back of my mind...Please! Don't spread it around :)... I'm getting old - Have I just slowed down and missed a few Winter days with their creative urges? Did I oversleep and fail to adjust to Spring? Did I just procrastinate and let the time slip by? I think I don't really want to hear the answers, but I'll freely admit to them. So, without further ado I will make a step in the right direction. When I step out of Spring it will be into a Summer filled with late-bloomers...New, touched by the weather, affected in some way by age...but done - by ME.
May your Spring end with success and fulfillment of original ideas and your Summer begin with sunshine and gentle breezes!
