Falling back in love with the creative process.
ART IS FOR ANYONE. IT’S JUST NOT FOR EVERYONE. -JERRY SALTZ
It is no wonder why artists feel hopeless at times. It is a fiery explosion of thoughts one tries to visually make sense and often makes no sense at all. Thoughts that you can’t easily put into words which is exactly what that fiery explosion is all about. Energy and heart and burning coming out of the depths of your soul that can’t easily be put into words. I stopped making art around the time I had kids. Between work and raising babies it just disappeared from my life leaving a void that I honestly didn’t notice much. In Fall 2021 the desire to create just came back. Something inside me said sttart. Do it. And I listened. This is the first piece I created last fall when I reacted to that inner fiery explosion in my mind. It is the image I created when I gave in. It has been an explosion ever since. I am well aware at this moment in time creating art is a self coping mechanism. I am also well aware I want it to mean something to someone somewhere. That doesn’t mean it has to. There are times I am drawing or painting and I start crying and I say to myself as I look at the picture- that’s it. This is exactly it. This is exactly what it is like. I felt this way creating this first image after my long break from creating. I found myself thinking you are the wolf. You are the gaurdian. Her brother is at her side trying to help her find the way. Trying to explain what to do. She is in an airport ready for lift off and all she can see is parrots and she may start flapping her arms and fly away into a world that makes sense to no one but her. You may not even notice that she has moved but in her mind she will be flying. We are with her. Around her. Scaffolding wthe how. Trying to translate her chaos into structure. Trying to reason with it and make sense of it. I love this piece because to me it is darkness and light. It is beauty and sadness. It is exactly how I felt at the time in a visual image because at the time I was incapable of saying it any other way. It is a welcome back to letting that mind fiery mind go Holly. We missed you. Go with it. You have no control. Sit with it. Art is yours Holly and art is unquestionably for you. Own it.
