A few soundbites from the mesmerizing book Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles and Ted Orland. If you consider yourself an artist—any kind of artist—you must read this book. [Any bold print is my addition.] Really, you’d be able to gobble the whole book up in an evening. […]
Parenting Beyond Belief
Decisions, decisions. If you have children, you will have to decide how you will raise them. How do you raise ethical, caring kids? Will you teach them tenets of a certain religion, or will you attempt to do so without religion? Will you model what you want to see, or simply tell them, “Do as […]
Things to Savor
Every once in a while, I like to do a post of all the fun things I’ve seen or experienced recently. Today is one of those days. Lucky you. My sister Amy informed me of the spectacular artist Nathan Abels. His blog minutiae is a conglomeration of all the wonderful things he likes. I’m going […]
Form As a Limitation in Creativity
Have you ever dreamed a fantastic thing in your mind, and then you tried to put it on paper or paint it on canvas or sculpt it or mold it, and it just didn’t have that oomph you saw in your head? Ah, you’ve fallen prey to what I call the artist’s discrepancy—the falling short […]
The Self One Has Sewn Together
My friend Dasephix shared this quote with me recently. I found it an absolutely stunning description of how I feel most of the time, particularly the part: the realization “that the self one has sewn together with such effort is all dirty rags, is unusable, is gone: and out of what raw material will one […]