I recognize that moment where something doesn’t pass but stays—almost quietly insisting on attention.
What I’m noticing in my own work is that the challenge isn’t only what stays, but allowing it to remain unresolved long enough to transform. Not rushing it into meaning.
That shift—from reacting to relating—feels essential.
Patience has a lot to do with all this and trying to not have any expectations other than, "I will create a piece of art that is meaningful to me." I had lost this tiny piece, an item for this piece I've been working on for a few weeks. As I was deciding between 2 places where to put it and holding it up to these places, I dropped it and off it went into some other dimention of the studio which I tore apart looking for it....never to be found. So after much anger and exhaustion and then giving up......I went online to order a readymade to take its place. This fuming got to me real good....or bad. Then diversion a few days later. Got an order from a buy to sell her more necklaces I had made years ago before I got back into the assemblages. I started to make the necklaces and really enjoyed myself tremendously making them. Soon I'll receive that missing part I need for the sculpture and be done with it and onto the next. Not sure if all this relates to the article you wrote. But it's what triggered it for me to write this diatribe. Thank you.
I recognize that moment where something doesn’t pass but stays—almost quietly insisting on attention.
What I’m noticing in my own work is that the challenge isn’t only what stays, but allowing it to remain unresolved long enough to transform. Not rushing it into meaning.
That shift—from reacting to relating—feels essential.
Really love this.
Patience has a lot to do with all this and trying to not have any expectations other than, "I will create a piece of art that is meaningful to me." I had lost this tiny piece, an item for this piece I've been working on for a few weeks. As I was deciding between 2 places where to put it and holding it up to these places, I dropped it and off it went into some other dimention of the studio which I tore apart looking for it....never to be found. So after much anger and exhaustion and then giving up......I went online to order a readymade to take its place. This fuming got to me real good....or bad. Then diversion a few days later. Got an order from a buy to sell her more necklaces I had made years ago before I got back into the assemblages. I started to make the necklaces and really enjoyed myself tremendously making them. Soon I'll receive that missing part I need for the sculpture and be done with it and onto the next. Not sure if all this relates to the article you wrote. But it's what triggered it for me to write this diatribe. Thank you.