The turkey limps along and I am guardedly optimistic. I've learned, over time, that there is limitless opportunity to screw up a painting: at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end. At present, we're dragging ourselves out of the disastrous middle. But at least it's limping along.
Reflecting back on the winter doldrums, I'm struck by the realization that being productive with one's art is simply part of a larger package, one bit of a gestalt. There is a chicken-or-the-egg question, I realize: Does depression cause creative paralysis, or does creative paralysis cause depression? But never mind. One part of this phenomenon seems to be that a recovery in any one part reflects a recovery in all the others. Of course, you have to start somewhere.
Being creatively productive seems to be a function of personality, active when other aspects of it are going well, too. I still don't know how to effect recovery.
It's Friday, and I think I might be going into Charlotte to see if any galleries are still in business despite the dismal trend to fold.
PW
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Upon further Reflection on my Father
About Me
- Priscilla Wallace
- My first attempt to enter the world of fine art was through academic painting at the University of Texas at Austin. I learned what painting was, and, disappointingly, that I couldn’t do it. I left painting as one would leave a failed marriage. It was some years later that I approached making art through making crafts. Since then, I have come to regard fine crafts as fine art: The difference between the two exist on a theoretical level only, because a line separating them cannot be drawn—at least, not for me. In a world made of both “art” and “craft” I have found my home. My artwork seems to best be called “Crafted Paintings.” Still mindful of the principles of design, they are part collage, part mixed media painting, part constructions. They are likely to run off in any of these directions, or others, as the spirit moves them. That spirit expands most successfully when it is beautiful, whimsical, colorful, and rich. These pieces celebrate life in one aspect of it or another, and they seek to create joy in the heart of the viewer. View my art at www.artbycollage.com
Places currenly showing Priscilla's Art
- Mountain Micro Systems (828-438-9456)
- Hair and Nails Unlimited (828-433-0894)
- Valdese Heritage Arts Center (828-874-1849)
- Urban Artware (336-722-2345)
- Full Circle Arts (828-322-7545)
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