Wing-Making Ventures

The name of my blog came from a quotation found in one of my favourite books, Women Who Run With the Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. When I am feeling in need of an attitude adjustment I grab this book, take a deep breath in and out, open to a page, point to a line, and read what I see. It always moves me beyond the busyness of daily life into the deep yes of my world as a woman and an artist. 

This quotation comes from the Chapter 10, Clear Water: Nourishing the Creative Life.

Reading further you find the suggestion...

"If necessary by tying ourselves to the mast, the tree, the desk, the cactus - wherever we create."

Heading back into the studio these days I find myself repeating these words to help me stay put when my busy self thinks it is important to go and do errands or check email. 

With these words, I allow myself to swim more deeply in the clear water of my creative life.

Calling My Artist

So I have designed this blog to mark the start of a journey. Well, really I am already on it but sometimes you need to pretend to start in order change perspective.

I want to make more art.

I want to experiment with encaustic and different materials like this...

and this...

Just to see where it goes...

when I show up in my studio and begin.