One Shot Wednesday: A Place to Share Your Poems

One Shot Wednesday: A Place to Share Your Poems

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The bear dreams as he snuggles
Under winter's white blanket.
The sun plays hide and seek.

August 4, 2010 Get Working

Get Working is the subject Fiona Robyn suggested in her Things to be Curious about: I have found anything you want to do, do it first. Then for the rest of the day, the thing that I wanted to do most is done. I think often, especially for women, we do for everyone else, and save what we want to do to the last. Then we find we have run out of time, or out of energy. So honor yourself, do it first, and sometimes if we have a day job, it means we get up earlier, before demands are made on us by others.



There is a little secret, and that is to leave your work space ready to go to work the next day. And always end on the downhill.
And that means don't do everything you know to do. Leave your work, knowing where you will do next, to be finished the next day. You won't lose any time getting back into the rhythm of your work.



Fiona asks, "Are you dissatisfied with your current work?" Of course this calls for a change. Change your medium, change your method, change what you are thinking about. Spend some time in the library, read through your journal. Go to the museum. Add a new color to your palette. Spend sometime alone, think, and write about what it is that you want to do. Be very clear and be specific about what you want, no generalizations.



She asks "Would you like to learn how to enjoy your work more?" We will enjoy our work when we concentrate on the process, give up the product completely. Be in the moment, and be grateful that we are able to do this, in the way we want, we don't have anyone telling us what to do, or how to do it. It all up to us, although that is a big responsibility, accept the responsibility.

Wednesday August 4, 2010

Drink, drink, drink
feeble is what I'm feeling
predict-ion is bleak.

Tuesday August 3, 2010 Out of the Studio

Today I go to Santa Fe. Yesterday the clouds were magnificent! I worked on a series of encaustics. They are small 16" squares, and there will be ten in this little series, and they will be a part of the Desert Poems Series. The other works I have done have been with gouache, but I've had these panels for some time, and wondered what I might do with them? While the pieces done in gouache are broken into forms, these pieces are more minimal.



In the beginning, I applied texture, and used a tool, that is used in ceramics, drawing a line in the middle, vertical and horizontal , thus creating four squares. So each piece is made up of four squares, and is one color. There are many layers of paint mixed with wax, as many as 30 layers. And as I layer the paint is lighter, darker, or seasoned with other colors. Sometimes, I scrape, and then, I apply paint again. The series as a whole seems to be coming along. I started number nine yesterday. I paint, and then sometimes I return and paint again. What I find, is that when we are creating new work, we must create several paintings, so that we can see the work in context. Then we are better able to judge our work.



When the work is new to us. It takes time to really see it. I read once that it takes as much time to see it, as it takes to create it. So we must be patient, when we are looking at work for the first time, even our own. We must not make decisions about what we like too quickly. And I think this is especially true when we are looking at the work of others.

Monday August 2, 2010 Microfiction Monday #42

Microfiction Monday #42
Microfiction Monday, where a picture paints 140 characters, or even fewer.





Ancient Ruins
Full of questions,
In the dark chamber
You interrupted the prayer
Of a man without pants.