I’ve been caught up in miscellaneous family stuff and haven’t managed to get into the studio for several days. It’s the typical ebb and flow of the family life versus creative life struggle. My brain keeps busy in the background with design ideas etc., but my hands are taking a break. My sister came for a short visit (yeah!), and there have been several trips out to the corner of the state for camp pickups with the girls. M’s session of camp ended and E’s home for a quick overnight and doctor’s appointment before I take her back to camp to work another session. It’s a weird combination of busy and not busy.
Studio time will have to be in shorter blocks of time again as M and I settle into the routine of swim team practices and all that jazz. Regrouping and refocusing creative energy during these kind of seasonal shifts always gets me off track for a bit. I am planning to work on making some simple metal bases when I next manage some studio time. That’s pretty mindless work. Mindless work is great when I’ve got lots of stops and starts. I’d like to make some more basic canes, spirals, stripes and bullseyes in different colors, but I’m thinking I need something more mindless first.
Boxes are pretty basic. Or circle pendant shapes. Basic sawing and forming. Minimal soldering. I’ll let you know how it works out.
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Lisa Clarke 07.06.08 at 11:49 pm
I know what you mean about seasonal transitions. I still haven’t gotten into my Summer groove. One week I’m all domestic and keeping on top of everything around the house, and the next I’m in an artsy whirlwind, letting dishes pile up and children play too many computer games. One of these days, I’m looking forward to getting back our old rhythm that involves a little bit of housework, a little bit of business, a little bit of creativity, and some outside time in the late afternoon. Balance!
It’s already July, and just about every day this summer, I’ve looked up from whatever has sucked me in for the previous several hours and said, “oh, is it time to make supper already?” It’s not entirely satisfying to whittle away a day like that and not know where it’s gone!
Have fun with your bezels. You make such great little boxes. I wish I had just 1/4 of your talent for metalwork!