I have so many dreams every night--it's a wonder that I'm not exhausted when I wake up in the morning, and it's the kind where I remember them....for about 5 minutes, and then I forget what they were about. It's weird how your mind works--maybe I should write the good ones down, and then when I read what I dreamt about later on, I'll think---did I really dream that?? Well anyway, I do remember fragments of my dreams, and this is where the art comes in---you know the layering--just like my dreams. I start with the first layer or dream--
......and the next one....
I added washes of paint, some more collage, including an image of my sketched face on a text page, some stenciling with paint and modeling paste, and then...
I was thinking I wanted to do some grid-style art (I kept my face--you know how they say not to get too attached to your background, because it will stop you from going further--well I was too attached to her, so I didn't cover her up) But I was just wasn't getting too excited over this grid. I just can't seem to let go when I make art--even though there may be layers, there has to be some order to it.
Well in the meantime, last week I got this book--
I'm sure a lot of you have this book by now, and it's great--I've been actually reading it and taking in what Flora is saying. A lot we've all heard before, but you can never hear it too often. She says--"Everything that happens along the way--every dab of paint, every emotion that arises, every brave new choice is an important ingredient in the final offering.. so when you work from this perspective, there's no room for fear to slip in. There are no mistakes" I always say this over and over, but it's not that easy for me---I hate the "ugly" stage, but I'm getting better--knowing that I will like it in the end---because basically there is no ending, until you say it's over--you can just keep going and going......
So---I just kept going (like my dreams at night :)
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Whoa!!---this was a bit too chaotic for me, but I was trying not to get all stressed out about it---I just needed to get rid of some of the chaos and cover it up, but not all of it....
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I pushed back some of it and then added more collage over it---I just left fragments...like my dreams....
...and I was still able to keep my face....peeking through...
So, you know how you hear when artists are sometimes asked where their ideas come from, and they say that they'll dream about them---well I guess, you could say that I dream about my art--well at the least the concept of it--all of the different layers.....
