Editor at Large
My recent studio time centers on rediscovering, revising, editing, and tweaking previously created sketches, explorations, and completed pieces. When I sit to write this post the title Editor at Large comes to mind so I draft it into place.
Then I pause, wonder to myself, does that phrase fit? What does "at large" actually mean?
• at liberty
• free
• on the loose
• on the run
• fugitive
• unconfined
Oh. I can see why the phrase has come to mind.
In June I retired from my professional career, and my current studio pursuits reflect the whole darn shooting match of my daily life since June. At liberty! On the loose! Unconfined!
In my studio and out, every which way I turn, I am rediscovering, revising, editing, tweaking, creating, exploring!
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Today’s art is again art with a history spanning several years.
Subsequent to its original creation, I send half of it as a postcard to my dad. Subsequent to that postcard’s return to my safekeeping after my dad’s death, I take it to my paper trimmer and extract a section for a new project. Later still, this week, I rediscover the remaining section, revise it with new collage, edit a ‘flaw’ or two, tweak the brightness of some colors, and create a bookmark to send by mail to cheer a friend.
In My Head I See Ballerinas
1.75 x 4.75″; acrylic and collage on card stock
bookmark
2024
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8 responses to “Editor at Large”
congratulations on retirement and the unfettered time arising from that release! What wild abandon to be Editor at Large, reinventing and tweaking! As always, I adore your bookmarks. So much to gaze upon in a small space. We have a stack of them on our coffee table next to our books-to-be-read, and they poke out from those books in progress. What delight!
Gotta say, I don’t know WHAT to make of ‘retirement’—I trust I will sort it out one tweak, reinvention, edit, and/or redirection at a time!
Thank you for adoring my bookmarks. I just love making them! And I love knowing you have a stack of them on your coffee table next to your books-to-be-read, with others poking out from those books in progress. WOOT!!!
Thanks, MaryAnn! The circular and meanderingly regenerative nature of artmaking never ceases to delight. My recent tweaked and edited pieces, sharing DNA from postcards previously sent to my dad and now having new purpose, have been especially meaningful to me. Love that you see the fun and festive in this bookmark.
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I do too! Bringing new life to art made at earlier times has been meaningful and nourishing recently.
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