Now, all sorts of stuff shows up. People keep blogs and pages about their art and the intrepid searcher can find just about anything! Artists (and everyone else) do not have to pass through the magical gates of Importance and can get their ideas out there on their own. Ain't technology great?
While searching for artwork based on relief sculpture, I came across a neat artist named Nina Paley, who experiments with digital embroidery and quilting. Her images come from art history, too, and I especially like her Assyrian Lamassu images. I can remember the day in college when I was literally dumbfounded at seeing the large stone Assyrian reliefs at the MFA and realizing that something similar could be made of fabric, setting me off in a direction that led me where I am today. Seeing as ISIS has now taken it upon themselves to destroy sculptures like the one that was so powerful to me makes these images especially loaded. I look forward to following her blog and seeing what she does with her frustrating digital embroidery software, as I too dabble with these menacing programs.
In my mind I see my art looking so different than it does today. Like the carrot and stick metaphor, I can never quite get the work where I want it to be. Progress is always so slow, especially with the life I have now.
All we can do is keep at it and hope that by the time we leave the planet we've moved a little closer to where our imaginations can take us.
Off for a day of catching up with errands and chores with incredibly sore hips and leg muscles. Hoping to get my art on, too.
What will you make today?