Day 50 of Year 2
I was upset about this two plate print when I first made it. (Swipe for details shots) The concept was the bottom plate would be a distorted mirror image of the top, but I did not execute the idea as it was received. The mix of dyslexia (even if mild) and printmaking is challenging to say the least. Prints are already reversed when they come off the plate. So reversing a reversed print, well, I'm already confused just talking about it! 😊 So because I'm disappointed with my execution of the idea, I can't judge whether the print is successful visually. It was, however, hugely successful as a vehicle for transformation. I felt something click on while making this print, a physical sensation. For the last couple weeks, I've been dissatisfied with my work, like I was controlling it too much or there was a barrier to progressing. Whatever the energy was that washed through as I worked today broke that barrier. I don't know how this internal shift will unfold, but change is afoot! I have a feeling it will manifest in my larger works which I am preparing for my show at Clerestory Fine Art in January (stay tuned for details!) Tomorrow I am hoping to try this concept again, but we shall see what the creative energy has in mind.
You and Art
By William Stafford
Your exact errors make a music
that nobody hears.
Your straying feet find the great dance,
walking alone.
And you live on a world where stumbling
always leads home.
Year after year fits over your face—
when there was youth, your talent
was youth;
later, you find your way by touch
where moss redeems the stone;
and you discover where music begins
before it makes any sound,
far in the mountains where canyons go
still as the always-falling, ever-new flakes of snow.
From Ask Me, 100 essential poems https://amzn.to/2NJzvPN
