Your article was tremendously reassuring and inspiring. Newly back to making art after five years, it was a blessing (and a reminder) to read all the ways making small art has value as a practice. And since reading your article, it's been easier to bring art making into my day. Thank you.
I must echo the other comments - excellent article. Working small is my go-to when I am blocked. It fires my creativity and allows me to move in new directions with collage and with painting.
Excellent article. This one really speaks to my practice. I enjoy how coherence begins to build all on its own across dozens, then hundreds of small works.
Yes! Excellent article. This is what I learned when I first was laid off from work into retirement. I had time on my hands. Lots. Of. Times. So I started to make necklaces until that bored me. I hadn't done any assemblage in a long while. So I started with these little pieces and lovingly called them "Shit on Stones". They were these inch high little assemblages. I still have the original 26 of them. From there I went a little bigger, then grew taller/bigger ones until I got back to the size I typically work with. In a way these little pieces were like the finger exercises a pianist would do for warm up. I was slowly putting in 'the big toe' into the cold waters to see if I still "Had It" as I wasn't so sure. Not only did I find I did indeed Have it, but new and improved, better than ever, found confidence, found my art voice, found talents I didn't know I owned. I still love the little works and may do more eventually just because.
Your article was tremendously reassuring and inspiring. Newly back to making art after five years, it was a blessing (and a reminder) to read all the ways making small art has value as a practice. And since reading your article, it's been easier to bring art making into my day. Thank you.
I must echo the other comments - excellent article. Working small is my go-to when I am blocked. It fires my creativity and allows me to move in new directions with collage and with painting.
Excellent article. This one really speaks to my practice. I enjoy how coherence begins to build all on its own across dozens, then hundreds of small works.
Jeez Cecil. You might've just given me the confidence in doing small work.
Merci beaucoup!
Yes! Excellent article. This is what I learned when I first was laid off from work into retirement. I had time on my hands. Lots. Of. Times. So I started to make necklaces until that bored me. I hadn't done any assemblage in a long while. So I started with these little pieces and lovingly called them "Shit on Stones". They were these inch high little assemblages. I still have the original 26 of them. From there I went a little bigger, then grew taller/bigger ones until I got back to the size I typically work with. In a way these little pieces were like the finger exercises a pianist would do for warm up. I was slowly putting in 'the big toe' into the cold waters to see if I still "Had It" as I wasn't so sure. Not only did I find I did indeed Have it, but new and improved, better than ever, found confidence, found my art voice, found talents I didn't know I owned. I still love the little works and may do more eventually just because.