Saturday, February 9, 2008

No More Sketching!

I spent the night going through all my old sketchbooks. I've spent many sleepless nights voraciously drawing all my ideas with plans of redoing them on actual canvas or whatever surface I chose. These plans, somehow, never made it to their final stages. It is ironic that the very fear of losing my creative thoughts has created a huge roadblock to my art making process. Once I have drawn them on paper, the ideas just seem to vanish and decide on their own that their destinies have been fulfilled. I am left with nothing but sketches in books that might never be seen. 

Now, my process is evolving into a more automatic nature. I'm done with thinking about things and setting them aside. I will live in the present and get down to the business of art. If my sketches were dreams, my work, from now on, will be realities. 

I will go back to my old sketches. Perhaps treat them like found images and recreate them into the smaller works of art that I have become so fascinated with. Perhaps they will make their way into a collage, or just framed as is to be admired for its raw quality. If I could have a dollar for each of these little drawings, I'd be a zillionaire!

Now, will this mind sketch of mine actually come to life? That remains to be seen.

2 comments:

Persephone said...

It is amazing how you really captured something that happens so discreetly all the time - it should be obvious! :^) Wow! It reminds me of that old saying, " life is not a dress rehearsal". Imaging how that translates into so many other areas of what we do - dont get me wrong, I believe in being prepared and the discipline of practice, but these days who has the time? Perhaps that is why we as parents try to get our kids into Everything - so that when they grow up and begin that journey of realizing that time is limited that they will be ready to paint the canvas and not just doodle in the sketchbook.

Patti Lorenzo said...

Thank you for your comment. I'm glad someone out there thinks like me. Now if I could only apply my art-making principles to my real life...:)