Meditate

One of the things that I really want to do this year is slow down a little bit, take more walks, enjoy the color, texture, and knitted images of this corner of my world. I have felt for a long time that everything I do is for a reason, a specified project, an end. That is part of the nature of commercial art, and there is nothing wrong with that, but I miss the living, breathing process of creating fine art.

So I’m starting a photography project, and I don’t know where it will lead. Each week I will turn inward for a few moments, meditate, on a recent photograph, and move it forward in some way, into a space that is fluid. My hope is that at the end of this year I will have 52 meditations, studies of color, layer, texture, shape, typography.

Although a new project may seem counterproductive to slowing down, I hope that it will help me to use some of my time to ponder. On color, texture, and image, alone. To be with a piece for awhile, and appreciate it for its presence, rather than hurrying to its finish. To move in a direction that I may not have had reason to move in otherwise. Maybe it will not, and I will abandon it. Time will tell, and we shall see.

I hope you enjoy these small moments of time with me.

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items are from between 09 Jun 2007 & 07 Sep 2008.