As an artist I know I will find myself in many situations that are not optimal. In my search for answers through creativity I will many times find myself outside the norm and in many ways shunned at many points. That’s ok. That’s a decision I made long ago.. The lesson to be taken from dealing with tough situations is to do what you can when you can and just keep moving.

 

This series, or at least the beginning that you see here, as the notebook has many pages yet to be filled, is my answer to my current life. Painting was my all for many months as money flooded in. Then, like a storm taking a deep breath, it stopped.

 

A quiet studio, a quiet mind, waiting...that’s not me. But, how to continue my search, my growth? No paint, no canvas...how? There were so many questions burning in my head that they could not help but to illuminate another path. Something parallel to the now, to what I’d done in the past, not new, just, different.

 

These pieces are slowly taking form. Each one chalked full of lessons to be used on the next, with the other work I do, with my life in general. I don’t have to love these, I shouldn’t hate them. They are what they are.

 

In the distance I can hear the storm building again. The ebb and flow of creation, valuation, progress and regression, a big push for something different is coming soon. Patience I must have, and well as fortitude. This was not my first lull, nor will it be my last. To maintain this attitude when there is no wind for my sails, key.

 

Until that first strike, that rumble of the earth letting me know what’s what, I shall continue to do what I can do to answer the questions that quite possibly have no answers.

 

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