Truly hard to believe that I haven't posted in all these months! I've been thinking and writing in my head but now its time to get back to the (virtual) page. When I settled back down in my studio this fall I was really happy to feel a strong continuance of what I had been up to in the spring. I knew that I hadn't been away because I had been unsure of my work, unsure of the way that my inner eye wanted things to take shape in the outer world. I had been away taking care of other things that have all contributed to my feelings of flow and balance.
A few weeks ago I found myself using the term Status Flow in my writing. It is definitely not the same as Status Quo, in which all things remain more or less the same. In my mind, it is a state of progression in which there is a continuance of flow in the direction of authentic expression. It is not necessarily a flow without resistance. It is not necessarily a flow with a defined and visible destination. But it is movement in a direction that continues to feel right and good. Status Flow - flowing with change in an authentic direction, navigating the waterway as it appears.
Since I have been physically back in the studio my work has been going well. I have finished the form of 3 pieces I have reworked and am well on my way to finishing a third that I began from raw stone. Reworking previously finished pieces is new for me. I started to do this because I was dissatisfied with some of my previously finished sculptures. I began to see where fear had held me back , where I hadn't pushed the form to completion on the original sculpture. I wasn't happy with previously 'finished' pieces and I wanted to make the stone more expressive. So I wrenched off bases, dug out supporting pins and used my bow saw to cut into the sculptures.
Never once did I feel as though I was destroying something, just continuing to create. Here are a couple of pictures of Fountain, in process and then as a finished sculpture in its second reincarnation.
