keep on keeping on...

While I procrastinate as well as any other, I did start to work on another tree last night while sitting in front of the TV. It must have been the first night home with enough time to actually cook myself dinner in over week or 2! I so could have completed a whole tree weaving, however I let my usual distractions get the better of me. Between avoiding writing my bio, writing a proposal, and editing photos that I don't feel are any good, I wanted to be interacting with someone or people rather than sitting at home( yay online chatting...) I think I'm also letting a conversation in my head about money stop me from moving forward with my project. I don't have the money to get the materials I need to do a quality job with my new series. I don't want to rig something up that will have me have to do a lot of clean up on the piece itself. Like in Jewelry work, the cleaner the wax is, the easier the metal is to work on after casting. This conversation has me not doing what I know to do that costs me nothing though, which is frustrating to see. I also feel like I'm ADD or something, which is just an excuse, but I had to say it... SQUIRL!!! Where was I, oh yeah, So what I see is missing is a promise, my word in the matter, a declaration of what I'm going to do and by when! A dead line to shoot for, with the things I can do, like bio and proposal and editing pictures, things that I can do to get networking with galleries. The money will come later, it always does! So By Dec 1, I'll have a bio and artist statement, a proposal, at least 6 pictures edited to submit, and have emailed/sent them out to 3 galleries! Anyone want to check on my progress on Sunday?

something new...

It seems to me that I like to forget that this blog is here, and that its mine, that I created it and it is my responsibility to up hold its intention! I have not been posting plain and simple! I often think that no one is out there reading my posts anyway so what's the point, hence forgetting that its here! I'm giving up that point of view, and I'm taking on writing at least once a week!
I have also been thinking a bunch about my work in general, and that I haven't really done anything in sculpture in a long time. I haven't been passionate about it at all for a long time. I have been passionate about my paintings, and I had created that by having a show, a future to live into. So I'm going to do the same with my sculptures! I'm creating being passionate! I'm creating a future to live into with my sculpture and taking on having a show for my sculpture by April!
One of passion's definitions is having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid. I particularly like fervid though; heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm! I can see that I'm so missing being enthusiastic with my art and my art career! So now what actions are there to take when I'm being enthusiastic?!? Well for starters finishing my artist bio and statement, then but not after, contact galleries and see what formats I need to prepare to prepose shows and whatnot. Oh and create more sculptures! I'm working on a new series of Industrial Bonzai! I'll show pictures of any finished work as soon as I can, but for now I'm keeping my ideas to myself! All there is to do is create the work! So I'm off...