January 24, 2025
Process! #7
On my nightstand:
Having stuff around
makes you feel ready for anything.
That’s something
you either understand
or you don’t.
—Kenneth M. Cadow, Gather (fabulous YA novel!)
On my easel:
Well, I surely have stuff around in my studio. My eyes land on my stash of hand-painted collage paper; my hands grab a sheet of collage paper painted on Dixie All Purpose Food Wrap; next thing I know I’m tearing and gluing.
Seems like more than a little bit of a sort of compositional structure, whatd’ya think, Amanda?
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8 responses to “Process! #7”
- You made it past the comment-blocking gremlins, Lola! What sorcery did you use? or are we, as ever, at the mercy of the tides?
- Your allusion to tides is SO helpful and apt. I still remember the first time the edge of a hurricane blew through at the beach where we spent a few weeks for each of a few summers. I was probably 10 the year of the hurricane. I woke up the next morning and … where was the beach I knew??? Reshaped beyond my recognition! Your description above is SO welcome, encouraging me as it does to keep playing, to keep letting whatever moves in move in! Thank you!
I really went to town editing and editing this piece! And your comment tells the heart of the story—editing out can make a piece stronger … at the same time that we miss what has been edited out!
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