art and making it: gentlyweeps

gentlyweeps

art and making it

Jan 17, 2008 02:24

so i have been talking about not making art, and last night i finally made some things. and tonight i continued making some more things. what inspired me was the work of sabrina ward harrison. lauren showed me her website, and it got me interested. she has made some books and other types of work, her art is so authentic to me. she combines journaling, painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, etc. etc.

looking at her work and reading about her life inspired me to break out of the limitations that i have often created for my own creativity. i have never really considered myself much of a drawer or painter because i haven't "excelled" at it the way i have in other media. but i felt like playing and working with words and color and stuff, so i just did it.

i don't know if it's good or bad or whatever, and i guess it really doesn't matter. i find in many of my creative endeavors i feel the need to seek out others' opinions in order to validate my work (even though i know that's not what creating is about). there's just a certain vulnerability involved in creation, especially the kind that expresses your heart and is meaningful to you. i always feel like i'm bursting to share after i've created something because i long to share a bit of my soul with others, i long for them to connect with me through the object or image i have scratched/scrawled/folded/smeared/agitated/sewn/sung my soul into. (i can't help mentioning that is kinda like a horcrux.)

so here is my soul, prithee be gentle with it.

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this one was too big to scan, so it's broken up into pieces.
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