Back to the studio, part 2
It’s the new year, with new projects. It’s the best of times, creatively, and arguably the worst of times in the greater world. Invasions of other countries, friends without health care, there are always things to wish were different, to struggle with, to feel defeated by. BUT – I don’t have to feel defeated – ever – in my creativity. It is what keeps me going, it is where I find my truth and the place from which I stand with my friends. It is my connection to the best part of myself.
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I’m using the cold winter months to finish a novel. Instead of being deprived of sketching in nature during the winter, I am framing it as being on retreat to do the important work of bringing this novel into the world.
Art pieces consist of sketches and refinements, learning anatomy of insects, understanding wing structures … nourishing my passion for the ways that the natural world resonate with our unconscious. This goes back eons, when early humans did not feel separate from nature and in fact relied on the creatures of the world for support, guidance, and mutual survival. Hence my efforts to invoke the honey bee, the dragonfly, the luna moth through artistic representation.
Stay warm friends, stay safe, and nurture your inner artist. AND the outer one.
Ash