Life and Art

Amazing it was just 2024… lots of good starts in 2024 thru 2025 and now fully bursting open in 2026. The Fire Horse year and all.  Life and health got a foothold in 2024 and 2025 so had to deal with that. We all get it – the responsibilities calling us, things we have to deal with and face up to and tackle it and helping out others. That was my last 2 years.

Now though, I am stepping back into being creative… not necessarily making ‘ART’. Maybe it should be called stepping out like out of my comfort zone. I haven’t done that much creative work but it just seems to flow back so that is what I am doing.

I started in late December and working on a ‘Book of Days’ – did I have one already? You bet I did but it seemed all commercialized. Wanting something different so I torn it up but keeping parts, took my old calendar from last year (had great pics of cats) and love using maps I’ve squirreled away.  So my first attempt at a journal in maybe 15+ years?  I laugh at myself as I am making it as I know what to do but the steps I’m doing a being done backwards.  It is a remembering process – a re-learning, re-training – a recycle of how-tos.

I love paper and images – So journals were my way back to the creative flow.  Oh and all the paper in kept magazines and articles much less old books.   One Book of Days led to a working again on a book of dreams I had started so long ago.  Which led to me clearing out and organizing old photos of personal and artistic nature.  And then prompted by my friend to go to a Fiber Arts Guild meeting (which I later joined).  Now? I just completed up dating my art resume and photos for being re-instated back into the professional Artist Association I left when I moved away some 20 years ago. OK that’s enough for now but really getting to feel the more sane and more what my desires are in this lifetime.