You won’t find any resolutions for 2015 here. Neither will you find a “year in review.” What you will find are a few words of thanks to any and all that have helped me on this journey over the past year. This have been tough over the past few years but I’ve managed to make it through and remain in a positive frame of mind.
Getting out of Florida helped in focusing my art practice on what I felt I needed to. I took the bare minimum with me, pencils and paper, and my old camera, that allowed me to document the world of my experience and then to creatively produce a number of art works that I feel comfortable with. My mindset to making art has changed over the past couple years in that I expect failures and rely upon editing rather than the pressure to make every piece count. That actually fits better with my repeated remark that making art should have a strong element of play (and experimentation).
I felt extremely honored to have been one of the featured artist in “Impulse” magazine and I’ve received a few emails and phone calls from some of the readers of that article with well wishes and thanks for believing in the simple process of walking-as-art. It really can be transformative.
So far this year I’ve been so busy I had only realized within the past two days I hadn’t posted anything since early December. Producing new pieces on a daily basis keeps me occupied, and I had some THICK research books from the library I was working my way through. Four of them got turned in yesterday. The reading list has been posted on my other “archive” site, onajide.com
“Watercolour and gold leaf. Working different materials, keeping it fresh. Para los zopilotes.”
“I know what I want but not always the path to get there.”