I'm look for the next series to create. Ideas are not flowing freely which normally means a great big shift in the foundational work that I'll be making in the near future.Faces are great. I'm not planning to stop but I think I'll take a break for a while...but it is time for something new. I had hoped to be around ceramics again soon, maybe this summer. I have a ton of ideas for ceramics. I hope to work with clay again...I miss it but that is another story.
I have been thinking about concepts like beauty, pain, heartbreak and mentorship a lot. Maybe the new series will be something along one of those lines. BUT It is difficult to work when you don't feel creative, what I've realized is that it just takes sitting with the materials, not thinking so much, and moving forward. Just create. Many people over-think, fear approaching an idea...and a ton of other things.
At a summer studio I watched my cohort work on the same piece day after day after day and wondered if she was avoiding the thing that was on her mind. I do that. When there is an idea that I'm not sure how to approach I will often avoid it for weeks (or longer). Avoiding it does two things. It drives the desire to create that thing, whatever it is, into a strange place--a restless place, and it also drives to you try to feel productive on some other thing. When it comes to creativity and creating I've realized that I just need to face it head-on, it can be fixed later if need be, but it (whatever it is) won't give me peace until it is released into the world.
