Late night tonight! Hospital time requires patience. 😊 I may have overworked this print. Knowing when to stop is the trickiest part of making art for me. When I’m at home and really listening it’s easy to tell. But the moment my mind starts to run, I lose the sense of my body and that’s how the direction comes through. Here it’s more challenging to stay present especially when it gets to be this late at night. Still, it’s such a blessing to be able to continue my work. I remind myself that my job is not to judge myself or my work, but just to work and have faith in the transformational nature of the creative process.
You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing
by Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing
that is more than your own.
Let it brush your cheeks
as it divides and rejoins behind you.
Blessed ones, whole ones,
you where the heart begins:
You are the bow that shoots the arrows
and you are the target.
Fear not the pain. Let its weight fall back
into the earth;
for heavy are the mountains, heavy the seas.
The trees you planted in childhood have grown
too heavy. You cannot bring them along.
Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold.