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Work in progresss |
This weekend I resumed work on a neglected art project. I
had been looking at it much of the past week, sitting there on my craft
table. I wanted to work on it but kept
finding excuses not to.
When I had begun working on the project its inspiration was
the three words I chose as a focus for 2020 – vulnerability, resilience, open. In the past couple of weeks, each time I considered
continuing the work I was met with the thought that working on a piece of
personal art seemed so frivolous when the future of everything seems so
uncertain.
To be honest, this has been an internal argument that I
encounter nearly any time I feel inspired to start a new creative project. I
have a difficult time allowing my creative desires to be important (I’ll save
the details of why I struggle with this for another blog post or my therapist).
Our current pandemic adds a whole other layer of internal resistance…
There was, thankfully, another voice in my internal debate
that told me that now was a perfect time to work an art project; working on it
would provide a much-needed mental health break. Not to mention the words I chose for this
year, long before I’d heard of the coronavirus, are probably three of the most
apt words I could have chosen. But the final
thought was that I really needed to be focused on something in the future.
I don’t know how the pandemic will impact my employment in
the coming months. I don’t know how long
we will have to wait before gathering in large enough groups for a live
performance show is a feasible thing. There
are so may future things that are reliant on the actions of others in the
outside world that planning ahead for many things seems futile, but there is no
such restriction on making art. Particularly art where the primary intended
audience is me.
Saturday night I sat down and worked on it for an hour. Sunday night a couple of hours more.
I am already pondering what bit of it I will work on tonight.
It feels good to be looking forward to something.
Be well.
Take care of yourself.
Take care of one another.
Stay home as much as possible.
Be kind.
Let those you love know how you feel.
And of course, please wash your hands.
Take care of yourself.
Take care of one another.
Stay home as much as possible.
Be kind.
Let those you love know how you feel.
And of course, please wash your hands.