Mirabai Starr
I sat with these words for a while. Is it so? Is it true? I wondered to myself. Does it indeed?
In the end I think I came down on the side of yes it probably does. On a personal level my best art comes when I listen to a whisper or a nudge or some little niggle that suggests I do something; or that I feel I need, or want, to do something in response.
Sometimes things tell me what they need to become. Fortunately, I am open to these conversations.
Being open to the connections, the links, the moments and the little gems of ideas that so often float free-from through our consciousness is pretty important to me and my practice. Sometimes these connections come by talking, by reading, by viewing or by wandering past something and seeing it anew.
I have certainly come to accept that being open, being receptive is something I do for my art. Being open and receptive suggest to me that I don't blunder forth "knowing" what is best or what needs to be done let alone being absolutely certain of the outcome, that certainly isn't me.
I am receptive to nudges and whispers and funny little conversations with artworks and materials.
Glacier holes, Canada, 2010.
first to receive ... but then to have the vision of what and how it might become
ReplyDeleteAnd then the work begins Liz! Its a bit of magical alchemy for me - flashes of inspiration; logistics and calculations; hard work; repeat!
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