Taking a break from cutting paper all morning and giving the hands a rest. I’ve got 4 different works in the works.. Something that popped in my head this morning: I read some interview with some artist once, and I can’t remember anything except that he (I remember that it was a ‘he’ at least) said that he enjoyed making art because there are no boundaries. I liked that.
5 x 7 inch paper cutting.
11 x 14 inch paper cutting.
I’m still chugging along on this thing.. hoping to finish it up tomorrow morning.
Sent out a few more packages to Denmark. Whatever I did to deserve the love in Denmark, I don’t know, but thank you for your orders! Also got some things mail-bound to Maine, Maryland, and Californiaaaa…
Happy Friday.
This is a commissioned design I did in 2009 for a small skin care company in Seattle.
I keep shifting directions with this one. And I know it looks like a flower, but it’s supposed to be the sun, and that’ll be more clear when I finish it. Anyway I had an idea, sat down to draw it out, and it changed to something else, and now that I’m at this point, I’ve refined my first idea to fit in with this and I’m going back. That’s the way things go sometimes. I always say to trust the very first thought that comes to mind about things… easier said than done.
I usually have pretty loose ideas when I do work, but I’ve been kinda fascinated lately with something I’ve read in a couple different Carl Jung books, most recently in “The Earth Has A Soul,” about his travels to Taos, NM, and visit with the Pueblo Indians, and is in itself a simple concept. Here’s a small excerpt to get to the point:
As I sat with Ochwiay Biano on the roof, the blazing sun rising higher and higher, he said, pointing to the sun, “Is not he who moves there our father? How can anyone say differently? How can there be another god? Nothing can be without the sun.” …
Makes sense. More to come.
5 x 7 inch paper cutting. Sold
8 x 10 inch paper cutting done for my friends Craig & Carrie who got married last October.
This came from a dream I had about a month or two ago.. I can remember seeing a variation of this image (in the dream, origami paper was used and the image was oriented horizontally) and the words “separating wholeness from reality” sort of just floated though. So, I thought I should do myself the favor of making it since it came through seemingly for the purpose of doing so.
5 x 7 inch paper cutting. Sold.