The Deepest Connection
(The Artist in Her Studio)

Tap root
Dive deep
Dig down
Seek

Lights and darks
Colors on a wheel
Texture - smooth to rough
Line and such
Brights to dull
Shapes to delight

Dive deep
Hold on
Seek some more
Explore
Take a sounding
Mark four

Dig down
Risk it all
Satisfy the hunger
Clock's broke
Day's end
Without conclusion
Tomorrows a new day
Try again

Seek
The journey is long
Made up of days
A lifetime to be sure
Illusion of time stops
It seems you just get started
Rolling downhill
Sun sets in the west
Day's done
The sun rises
Begin again

Note:  The question echoes in the brain, who is the one who makes the mark?

Yesterday while reading Anne Truitt's book, Turn.  There were a couple of quotes that caught my eye.

"I am old in the ways of rejection and failure."  Yes, any artist can say this.

And then..."I am always, and always will be, vulnerable to my own work, because by making visible what is most intimate to me I endow it with the objectivity that forces me to see it with utter, distinct clarity.  A strange fate.  I make a home for myself in my work, yet when I enter that home I know how flimsy a shelter I have wrought for my spirit.  My vulnerability to my own life is irrefutable.  Nor do I wish it to be otherwise, as vulnerability is a guardian of integrity."

June 20, 2013 Look and See

I met with a group and the topic of "look" and "see," was raised.  Are these words the same?    Do we mean something different when we use the words?

The dictionary says, when "look" is used as a verb.  l: to make sure or take care (that something is done)  2: to ascertain by the use of one's eyes  3 a: to exercise the power of vision upon:  EXAMINE  b archaic: to search for  4: to await expectantly or watchfully 5:  archaic: to bring into a place or condition by the exercise of the power of vision  6: to express by the eyes or facial expression  7:  to have an appearance that befits or accords with

"See" is used as a verb.   l: to perceive by the eye  2 a: to have experience of  b: to come to know :DISCOVER  3 a: to form a mental picture of : VISUALIZE  b: to perceive the meaning or importance of : UNDERSTAND c:  to be aware of  : RECOGNIZE  d: to imagine as a possibility  : SUPPOSE 4 a: examine, watch  b (1): READ (2): to read of  c: to attend as a spectator  5a: to take care of: provide for b: to make sure  6 a: to regard as : JUDGE  b: to prefer to have c: to find acceptable or attractive  7a: to call on: VISIT  b (1)to keep company with (2) to grant an interview to :RECEIVE  b : ACCOMPANY, ESCORT  9: to meet (a bet) in poker or to equal the bet of (a player) : CALL

To Look or To See

When in conversation

I say, “Look”

I am asking

For your understanding

For you to hear me

To hear my words

Know their meaning

I want you to see

What I see

I want you to see me

To get down and

See right through me

Look into my heart

My soul

I wait for you

To see me

When Asked

I will answer “yes”

I saw it

I stood before it

My eyes in that direction

I thought I saw it

I continue to look

Time passes

I do not look

At something different

Yet, something changes

Perhaps it’s me

Suddenly I see

I Looked

A first impression

Was formed

I saw it all

Upon re-inspection

It seems I was blind

I did not see at all

To See

To see

Takes time

To look

But an instant

Sunday June 16, 2013 Fragments G&C #151

Fragments G&C #150  30"x30"  gouache on w/c paper

I continue to try to figure out what I am doing.  My ideas are fleeting.  I know what this new work is about, small pieces, geometry and change; change of value, change of color, change of intensity, change of tempreature, etc.  The work is a new form of Op and Color Field.

I learn with the execution of each piece...with each mistep, I learn.  My ideas become ever clearer, though I still remain in a fog, never sure exactly what I want the viewer to see, nor where I am going.

 I chart the direction for the next piece.