I've experienced that serious sense of purpose and commitment, combined with drive and need to complete a piece this week. Followed by the total relaxation of aimlessly exploring a few different things in the studio, with no goal or aim in mind.
I finished my third "Fragile Gains" book and am mightily relieved to be sending it on its way to the US in the next day or so.
There is always a degree of pressure in delivering work that has been sought - compared to making the work for itself. Luckily I was kind to myself and gave myself the whole weekend to complete it, after finishing burning through the week.
Quietly and gently it came together; but with lots of persistence.
So here are some fragment of the final…
Before I could knuckle down to the actual completion, I gave myself some empty-mind, free-time to play and explore. So I got out the watercolours and some Arches Velin paper and practiced this -
Then afterwards it was into more mindless tasks like cutting paper to the right size for the November Maleny Printmakers' exhibition and trialling some mono-prints.
Inspired by Carol du Bosch over at A Letter a Week, I also grabbed a pen, dipped it in ink and wrote a letters on a few scraps of paper, then washed the ink off - serendipity of marks here we come!
It was so good for the spirit to just faddle and faff around - trying this and that just for sheer fun of it.
And then today, because the bunches of bananas are ripening much faster than we can eat them; the first loaf of banana bread. I expect there will be plenty more...
I finished my third "Fragile Gains" book and am mightily relieved to be sending it on its way to the US in the next day or so.
There is always a degree of pressure in delivering work that has been sought - compared to making the work for itself. Luckily I was kind to myself and gave myself the whole weekend to complete it, after finishing burning through the week.
Quietly and gently it came together; but with lots of persistence.
So here are some fragment of the final…
Before I could knuckle down to the actual completion, I gave myself some empty-mind, free-time to play and explore. So I got out the watercolours and some Arches Velin paper and practiced this -
Then afterwards it was into more mindless tasks like cutting paper to the right size for the November Maleny Printmakers' exhibition and trialling some mono-prints.
Inspired by Carol du Bosch over at A Letter a Week, I also grabbed a pen, dipped it in ink and wrote a letters on a few scraps of paper, then washed the ink off - serendipity of marks here we come!
And then today, because the bunches of bananas are ripening much faster than we can eat them; the first loaf of banana bread. I expect there will be plenty more...
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ReplyDeletei just popped in
from Jennifer Coyne Qudeen ...
i suffer paper*love, myself,
but this year
for me
it has been the Power of the Canvas !! }}
nice
to meet you !!
spf
Thanks for popping over spf - sounds like you've had a happy year of canvas love! Go well.
Deletejust had a look through all your posts about your edition of "Fragile Gains", such a brilliant body of work Fiona
ReplyDeletedeep bow to you
namaste
Thank you Mo - such kind words. It has been a pleasure to make these books and to send them forth…go well.
DeleteI love the serendipity letters - ghosts of themselves - and that wonderful monoprint with its depth and movement ... and that loaf of banana bread is quite enticing too!
ReplyDeleteI too love those letters - I was so thrilled to seem disappear, yet remain…and I must admit that mono print is full of depth and movement in that photo - seems a little bit flatter in person! Banana bread is going well - very satisfying. Hope you are enjoying some sunshine, go well.
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