Feedback

Last week I took some drawings to a gallery and got some feedback. It was helpful. It was painful. It was that he could not see what I cared deeply about in the drawings I showed him. So I started thinking about what I care deeply about, and realized that I love exploring surface quality. So this week I just explored the shit out of surface quality. And here is some of what I did. It made me think about why I make art. I make art to understand something that can't be understood. I make art to do something when nothing can be done. I make art to feel something enough to heal it. I make art to make something from nothing. I make art to give something when I have nothing to give. I make art to be in this moment more fully. I make art to express the joy of living in this one moment with no idea what will happen next or what any of it means. I make art to find out what I think. I make art to make something of beauty that I hope someone else will be enriched by just a little bit. I make art to share God knows what with the world. And there are lots of other reasons I make art that I am too ashamed to admit. Anyway, I keep on making art, and I guess that's good. 

Poppy Play

June is so full of beautiful flowers. I want to capture them, but I just can't seem to make my camera work properly lately. So frustrating. It may be time for a new camera. But in the meantime I get to play with photos to make them a bit more interesting, if not  the way I'd really like them. 

The Boston Drawing Project

The Boston Drawing Project

Alhambra, by Kathranne Knight

If you don't know about the Boston Drawing Project, located at Carroll and Sons Gallery on Harrison Avenue in Boston, you should. Go over here to look. Most of the work is in flat files that you can look at just by walking in the door. I love this concept, and there is quite a list of participating artists. Kathranne Knight (drawing pictured above) is one of them. Look at her work here.