“You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now.
No one can advise or help you – no one.
There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself.”
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I’m diving deep into uncomfortable territory today.
Truthfully, my breath is a bit squeezed and shallow. Trying new techniques.
Using a different type of palette that I’m not used to and finding it’s really not conducive to our northern climate.
Into the ugly phase now… the most challenging place to be as an artist, especially when trying something new.
Do I pause? Breathe… contemplate… trust in the process… Keeping going until it becomes something with a glimmer of hope, revealing the way forward?
No fear! That’s what I hear. If it stinks, so what! Begin again. Or be pleasantly surprised with flash of genius to bring it home.
I often put way too much pressure on myself, do you?
Kiernan
“Try to be like the turtle –
at ease in your own shell.”
~ Bill Copeland
