tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770865853578580379.post1403353946788254676..comments2023-11-03T06:19:29.731-04:00Comments on Zoa Art: Break Through Lisa Blackwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552668716204262179noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770865853578580379.post-1575703550099839962008-07-29T07:02:00.000-04:002008-07-29T07:02:00.000-04:00I think break through and break away are linked, a...I think break through and break away are linked, as Tony's post and these comments suggest. <BR/><BR/>I also think that the process is always going on, like soup simmering on a stove. You mix up all the ingredients, turn on the burner, and walk away. If you sit and watch the pot, it doesn't make soup any faster, and it makes you crazy. By walking away, doing something else occupies your mind, condenses the time required in your perception to make soup. You come back later and the simmering has done its work, blended all the flavors and you have something that can fill you up. If the simmering has gone on so long that you don't even remember what you threw in the pot, (which at 42 I find is mostly the case with me) then tasting that soup can feel like a break through.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, loved meeting you both at the bead show this weekend. Corrie as a marketing idea she'd like to try with your work, featuring it in her photographic self portraits. <BR/><BR/>Blessings, SH$https://www.blogger.com/profile/09895468886780647516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770865853578580379.post-7560223534339085232008-04-29T23:51:00.000-04:002008-04-29T23:51:00.000-04:00Glad to have found your new web pages!Glad to have found your new web pages!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770865853578580379.post-23184033164464390312008-04-28T20:11:00.000-04:002008-04-28T20:11:00.000-04:00Hi Kids! I'm thinking my biggest breakthrough in ...Hi Kids! <BR/>I'm thinking my biggest breakthrough in recent memory was a couple years ago - my work had gotten crazy complex and convoluted and just plain too much. I took a break for a month or so when Dave's mom was visiting and after that, I couldn't go back to what I was doing. Then I just stopped working entirely - that was January and February 2006 - and hunkered down with piles of books and music and a select group of videos. I poured over Andy Goldsworthy everything, Japanese gardens and folk pottery, Maya Lin architecture - rustic and minimalist seemed to be the theme.<BR/><BR/>Out of that came the body of work that launched my current jewelry successes. Now that it's been a couple of years, I'm finding myself drawn back to more complex forms. I'm hoping that as this new work evolves it will still be informed by one of my favorite themes - Occam's Razor ... the simplest answer is usually the right answer.<BR/><BR/>ttfn - kathykvkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10064766686926222233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770865853578580379.post-15884050629946655162008-04-23T20:20:00.000-04:002008-04-23T20:20:00.000-04:00Hi there!Love the pic of Tony! I've heard artists ...Hi there!<BR/>Love the pic of Tony! I've heard artists grow the most during trying times. Sometimes its good to step back and look at things from a different perspective. I haven't made a painting in a year. I haven't felt it. Art is like that, sometimes it feels as though it has abandoned you, but there it is, hibernating, waiting for something to wake it up.Cynthia Thorntonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11843134038834188332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770865853578580379.post-17707440976871420282008-04-22T02:21:00.000-04:002008-04-22T02:21:00.000-04:00Hey guys! It's been a while. I hope you all are ...Hey guys! It's been a while. I hope you all are well and good. <BR/><BR/>I think that break through moments are always best seen in hindsight. Sometimes when you're caught up in the moment, struggling with whatever obstacle, it doesn't seem like it will amount to very much. All it seems like is a lot of work and a lot of pain. But later, when time passes and the Plan is a little bit more revealed, everything seems to make a little more sense. Everything seems to fall in line and all doors open.<BR/><BR/>Personally, I think I've only had a handful of experiences when I felt as though I was granted the foresight to see everything clearly, as though I was looking back at everything with perfect objective reason. Most of them are way too private to write about in a public forum, but each included a remembrance of what was important to me and how I had to secure whatever it was that I wanted. <BR/><BR/>In any event, I've got to jet. Thanks for letting me know about your blog move. I would have been checking your other blog site for ages complaining about how you all never update. I'm glad that I can check up on you all more now!Andrew Thorntonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04191233443131580096noreply@blogger.com