[Jewelry making - Article 00171] - Re: [Orchid] Your pieces from last year?

[Catherine Jo Morgan]

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    Well, if the choice is between a spirit-destroying, low paying job
    on the one hand, and sending old artwork that you're not thrilled
    with - I'd send the artwork. You may end up doing both, but at least
    you may create some new opportunities this way. Perhaps you can get a
    more positive perspective on your past work. 

    After all, something about it led you to the ideas that are fresh
    and alive for you now. This is a new day, but you're not completely
    newborn as an artist. You have developed - partly through the work
    you've completed in the past. So it deserves some honor for this. 

    You might find it interesting to try some empathic responses to it. I
    wrote an article on this in my weblog at

http://radio.weblogs.com/0120691/stories/2003/03/20/empathicResponses.html

    Sometimes this process can lead to a complete shift in perception and
    attitude. 

    I remember reading the novelist Gail Godwin saying that when a work
    in progress started to "die" on her, so she was losing feeling for
    it, she could sometimes bring back the spark by writing a rave review
    of it as if she were an art critic who loved it. If you can write
    freely, letting your pen or keyboard do the work with you just
    watching, this might also bring back the spark for your past work. 

    In a way, our relationship with work is very similar to
    relationships with other people. Sometimes that flame of attraction
    seems to die. Then loyalty and dogged desire to understand, can often
    spark the flame again. 

In any event, best wishes.

Catherine Jo Morgan
Morgan SculptuRe: iron & mixed media vessels
Artist Journal Online - Hand Forged Vessels:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0120691/ 
mailto:cjmorgan AT hemc.net 


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