In all honesty, I don’t use this blog as a blog. I use it as a place mostly to post short articles on what ever topic I want to write on. Today, I’m really writing about me.
I usually focus on design, not art. Design is about creating items (in my life scenery or lighting) to support concepts or ideas developed by others (the script/the playwright). The difference is art is about creating items to share your own ideas.
I have been working on a project for the last year that I will hopefully be able to fully talk about soon. A few years ago I did a 365 project. A 365 project traditionally means creating a work of art everyday for a year. What I really did was try to create 7 a week. My work schedule meant that I got a lot of art done in tight blocks and then would go days without doing anything.
It was fun focussing on art projects that I wanted to do, that expressed what I wanted to express, that used techniques that I wanted to explore. As much as I would like to do that again, I am no longer largely living on my own, my duties have expanded both at home and at work, and another 365 isn’t in the cards for me now. However, the art bug is back.
I have a handful of small projects I want to do (and I suspect I will have a BIG project connected with the project I can’t talk about yet). But over the next few weeks, I hope to do an art piece. An art piece for me.
I have an idea — something I want the piece to be about. I have a form I want it to be (a variation on a triptych). I will have some experimentation of media and supplies to get the look I see in my head. But for a change I working on art for me.
In the end the idea may not be earth shattering, and the methodology may not be as ground breaking as I think — but it will be momentous for me. . .
. . . Because I will be an artist again.
This is something I need in my life now.