Big Circles
I came home to find 3 tree trunks (with the bark stripped off) on the pathway to my front door. That is what is great about being an artist, sometimes your just a regular person, then something like that happens and you flick into strange world.
So I am reflecting on my time in the woods, and two more months before I have completed my year recording each month. I am involved in the Wildart Trail, but outside of that I wanted this blog-the woods-the changing seasons to take me to new places, have new ideas and change the way I work. All of these things have happened on a small scale and really the woods has provided such a wide area of possibility I have almost drowned in potential. Unable to really make it work for me. I have done allsorts of things and met people and made connections, all fine stuff. Time has been the enemy…..nearly a year………I have been unable to steer a part of this year where I wanted. Unbeliveable.
But the woods will be there for a while yet and I can return to them again when the time is right. It’s all a big circle and I have revisited themes and ideas time and time again. Reworking revisiting something years later. It is only now after all these years I can see that about myself.
So I have been looking for a new place to make art about. When I have finished my sticks and not working on commissioned projects I’m walking out of the woods cos I kept getting metaphorically lost in there.
This is the biggest lesson I learned in there: If your building a wall in your back garden its far better to lay a few bricks now and then and gradually build your wall over a period of time which is as long as you need. Because if you wait for a block of time to build it, that empty block of time never comes along and the wall never ever gets made. The same with art because it is all a big circle and you can return when your ready.
