filling station 2, Monotype of the Day #888

Day 156 of year 3

888 days, such a lovely round number, curvy and full. I believe in China 8 is considered a very lucky number. I feel lucky to have gotten this far in my monotype of the day project.

Tonight's print is the ghost ink from last night on top of the ghost ink from a few days ago with a few new additions. For some reason, this print makes me happy. Wishing you everything good. xo

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filling station 2, monotype of the day, 12 x 14” Sybil Archibald

filling station 2, monotype of the day, 12 x 14”
Sybil Archibald

frustration (2), Monotype of the Day #882

Day 150 of year 3

I've hit a major stumbling block in the studio. I accept where I am and trust my process. I know eventually I will figure it out, but that hasn't dissipated my feelings of frustration which are intense. I have to honor those feelings instead of fighting them so they can pass. I am grateful to have art to help me do that.

frustrated (2), monotype, 12 x 14” Sybil Archibald

frustrated (2), monotype, 12 x 14”
Sybil Archibald

For the first 24 hours after posting, this piece is 10% off and can be purchased here.

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see me, Monotype of the Day #843

see me, monotype 12 x 14” Sybil Archibald

see me, monotype 12 x 14”
Sybil Archibald

Day 111 of year 3

We want the world to see us for who we are, but often we refuse to see ourselves and our fundamental goodness. We like to focus on our brokeness, but what of our light.

Oremus
By Pádraig Ó Tuama

So let us pick up the stones
over which we stumble, friends,
and build altars.

Let us listen to the sound of breath in our bodies.
Let us listen to the sounds of our own voices,
of our own names, of our own fears.

Let’s claw ourselves out from the graves we’ve dug.
Let’s lick the earth from our fingers.
Let us look up and out and around.

The world is big and wide and wild
and wonderful and wicked,
and our lives are murky, magnificent,
malleable, and full of meaning.

Oremus.
Let us pray.

From https://onbeing.org/programs/padraig-o-tuama-and-marilyn-nelson-a-new-imagination-of-prayer/ Also see Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community https://amzn.to/3mCfzN0

interior view, Monotype of the Day #830

interior view. monotype, 12 x 14” Sybil Archibald

interior view. monotype, 12 x 14”
Sybil Archibald

Day 98 of year 3

Tonight's poem is from a really lovely book of poetry, Iron String, and is a new discovery for me. I hope you enjoy. 

Enough

By Annie Lighthart

Sometimes the birds like the bare branch, and later
the cover of leaves. And so it goes: a day of sun, then two
of rain. We are easy with the world and then can no longer be.
And the space between — what lives there? In the middle
of the in-breath and out — where are we just then?
Is there more than silence between chorus and verse?
Is it a compressed galaxy? A pocket of time? Or perhaps
it is more like the comma, dark little hook
on which many things turn. Sometimes it’s enough
to slip into that darkness and just stand there, looking around.

 From Iron String https://amzn.to/3oinBMS

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fishing hole, Monotype of the Day #827

Day 95 of year 3

This project is about exploring the inner life of an artist, the issues that come up and the growth that occurs while working in the studio. It is a very public way of making art and it takes great discipline to keep the stream clear. By that I mean, listening and acting on inner impulses and messages alone, rather than viewer expectations. If a particular print gets a lot of likes, it's human nature to want to do more of what receives praise. It's also easy to worry about what people will think. But this is the short road to creative blockage and that I realized is what has been happening to me. In the back of my mind without even being conscious of it, I began censoring myself- I've used that symbol too often, people will be bored, they will think I'm lazy, etc. It kept me from fully embracing and letting go in my work. I know a wonderful artist, Jay Pingree (https://sixfootsixstudio.com/). He has been working the same topic, people walking, for quite a while. But I'm never bored when I see his work because it comes from a place of truth, his inner truth. Each piece unfolds an intimate and distinct experience and reveals something new though the subjects are the same. I am grateful for his example. Humans are addicted to judging especially self judgement. It is easy to fall into such an ingrained habit, but judgement has no place in the studio. It only narrows the stream and by releasing it, I feel fully present again in the studio. I don't know the purpose of my work, what energy is working through, or why, but that is not mine to know. It is for me to work with what the creative flow so generously offers.

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keyhole, Monotype of the Day #823

Day 91 of year 3

I feel more connected to this monotype than I have to one in a while. Some pieces have an inner meaning which is part of a tender correspondence between the artist and The Artist, a message to be unwrapped by its maker alone.

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