Rice Freeman Zachery has an insightful post on her blog, titled "Escaping from Your Fabulous Life" which addresses both creativity and our urge to run from it. And, hopefully, she's following this up with a podcast interview that goes into this subject of blocks and avoidance with more depth. Stay tuned...
I struggle with this a lot. I'm doing it right now: sitting in front of the computer instead of working on either one of the two lovely and satisfying projects all cued up and ready to go on the sewing table. I KNOW that three nights out of five I'm avoiding sewing not because my back is tired or my eyes are weak or any of that -- I do it for the reasons Rice begins to enunciate in her post -- because it's WORK to create, much more work than laundry, way more work than effing around on Facebook for hours at a time. And sometimes it's lonely work -- good alone time, but a kind of time I seem disinclined to value. Apart from the surfing, I do that other nasty thing - shopping. Shopping for thread, for a new lamp, for more fabric; for supplies I seem to require urgently, which then sit in the bag on the floor in the sewing room while I surf the Internet...Yep, a nasty truth, and it's true RIGHT NOW. Fortunately, I get to surf some more while eagerly awaiting Rice's podcast.
Damn.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
another rainy day
In truth, these leaves are plastered by heavy rain to the roof of the bus shelter near the river, on Central Ave, and they looked so strange and lovely from beneath, in the morning light....
Sunday, September 12, 2010
what's happening?
Recently ordered some hand-dyed remnants from Gerdiary and received my deceptively small padded package from Germany after just a week or so of waiting. Gorgeously dyed and textured scraps that are worn and soft, with a lot of "found" appeal... sweetly packaged, here pictured with a work in progress inspired by a class with Jude Hill.
Friday, September 3, 2010
state fair
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