Day 52 of year 3
Last night's print was the ghost print of this image. It's been over a month since I cleaned my plate and so many surprising images came up on the ghost from prints many days past. Tonight I made several prints, but this image kept calling me. So I worked on it some more and added a few additional layers. This chair imagery is a complete mystery to me. Some times it takes months, even years for the true meaning of a symbol to be revealed. It was about two years from the first appearance of the keyhole to really see its complexity and meaning. This place of unknowing is a place of growth, a moment of filling. So much of deep change happens just outside of our view, beyond what we can rationally grasp. Like the opaque chrysalis, the mystery of transformation is shielded. Therefore, artists must put their faith in the unknown, in the mystery of working, and trust the outcome matters. The truth is that each of us matters (artist or not), what we do matters and who we are matters. The hard part is that most likely we will never know how or why. Our job is to trust that our footprints make a positive difference in this world and to put one foot in front of the other and keep moving forward.