The symbolism with letting go of the materials and how that relates to your self is huge. Your art practice has been about using what is often discarded because it has value (just like society often judges and discards people, missing their inherent value) and YOU JUST HAD TO DISCARD IT. You just discarded the materials of your artist metaphor. Yes, so aptly put, discarded and retrieved fodder, it is the Start of your Perfect Finish.
You honed in on one of the aspects of what these things represented that I've still been keeping at arms length. Thank you for seeing me and getting how hard the process was. Shedding layer upon layer of those old messages ain't for the faint of heart. Love and gratitude abounds ❤️
You are so very brave...putting into words such raw feelings and then acting on them. However, I personally think you are very hard on yourself too. Give credit to yourself for these struggles in understanding what is happening in and to your life- trying so hard to handle it, to understand it and to move on it. Your purging is certainly difficult but being a type of cleansing for you it will hopefully lift some unnecessary gilt from your shoulders. Have you thoughts of working in a different medium other than collage? I'm sure you have. I love that you are doing more with your writing but do understand that your teaching is a vital part of your income at this stage. I'm praying that all of this will fall into place and that the paths you are led to will be positive, warm and full of even more creativity and happiness. However I can help my heart and arms are open.
The purging of these things from the studio for sure makes way for something new in my own art practice, but the process of doing it was extremely difficult to work through as they do represent so much about the overarching theme in my work. The timing of detoxing my system with the gut issues, and detoxing my studio environment served to reveal some other things I needed to detox from my mental load, and this post was an attempt to tie all that together as my continued journey of working on staying connected to my own intuitive voice and sharing my human experience to help others find their way to their own. I'm working on a second post at the moment that might help clarify some of the points that I think were lost in this one. and still working on refining my voice as a writer, so every bit of feedback is received and contemplated with those goals in mind. Thanks for taking the time to read and respond Sally. You are always such an encourager. I hope you receive as much as you give. It's a joy to know you are a part of my community.
The symbolism with letting go of the materials and how that relates to your self is huge. Your art practice has been about using what is often discarded because it has value (just like society often judges and discards people, missing their inherent value) and YOU JUST HAD TO DISCARD IT. You just discarded the materials of your artist metaphor. Yes, so aptly put, discarded and retrieved fodder, it is the Start of your Perfect Finish.
You honed in on one of the aspects of what these things represented that I've still been keeping at arms length. Thank you for seeing me and getting how hard the process was. Shedding layer upon layer of those old messages ain't for the faint of heart. Love and gratitude abounds ❤️
You are so very brave...putting into words such raw feelings and then acting on them. However, I personally think you are very hard on yourself too. Give credit to yourself for these struggles in understanding what is happening in and to your life- trying so hard to handle it, to understand it and to move on it. Your purging is certainly difficult but being a type of cleansing for you it will hopefully lift some unnecessary gilt from your shoulders. Have you thoughts of working in a different medium other than collage? I'm sure you have. I love that you are doing more with your writing but do understand that your teaching is a vital part of your income at this stage. I'm praying that all of this will fall into place and that the paths you are led to will be positive, warm and full of even more creativity and happiness. However I can help my heart and arms are open.
The purging of these things from the studio for sure makes way for something new in my own art practice, but the process of doing it was extremely difficult to work through as they do represent so much about the overarching theme in my work. The timing of detoxing my system with the gut issues, and detoxing my studio environment served to reveal some other things I needed to detox from my mental load, and this post was an attempt to tie all that together as my continued journey of working on staying connected to my own intuitive voice and sharing my human experience to help others find their way to their own. I'm working on a second post at the moment that might help clarify some of the points that I think were lost in this one. and still working on refining my voice as a writer, so every bit of feedback is received and contemplated with those goals in mind. Thanks for taking the time to read and respond Sally. You are always such an encourager. I hope you receive as much as you give. It's a joy to know you are a part of my community.