Painting on a regular basis seems not unlike shadow boxing to me, a 'training' method that warms me up to gradually increase my creative heart rate and prepare me to absorb and redirect energy to great advantage when inspiration 'throws a punch' in my direction.
Today's time in the studio could not have been any more satisfying than landing a solid uppercut right in the solar plexus of a sparring partner (does my metaphorical meandering have any connection whatsoever to actual boxing?)(or art?!).
I have not been painting on a regular basis lately and have in fact been feeling decidedly out of shape creatively. But today the many many times I have put myself in the ring studio to shadow box came together for a magical muse moment. The ingredients:
• a little wooden shadow box(!) that previously held a set of tiny tin Christmas ornaments,
• a postcard I painted for my dad in March 2021—a postcard that came back into my keeping following his death just two months later,
• my trusty paper trimmer, and
• some matte medium.
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Be Joyful Though You Have Considered All the Facts, reinvented 2 x 6", acrylic and ink on paper, mounted in shadow box abstract flora 2023 |
