In this moment, I fell in love with a homemade sheet of paper, paper I've been told looks like mold, but in this moment, I don't care. I adore it.
In this moment, I found a perfectly marbled piece of wood, and in this moment, I decided to stain it, to pull out those swirled forms from the dark oak, to bring them to life. In this moment, it felt like it still needed more, so into the grain I rubbed hues of green, of red and orange and a deep brown.
In this moment, I saw the bucket of joint compound, and remembering the joy I felt the last time it oozed between my fingers and built upon my canvas, I layered it on, fingerpainting swirls of pine and olive and forest green onto my piece. In this moment, longing to continue working with my fingers, I dripped a dark ink down the board, and I watched as it rolled down the glossy surface, blending and bleeding into the joint compound below.
In this moment, I found a perfectly marbled piece of wood, and in this moment, I decided to stain it, to pull out those swirled forms from the dark oak, to bring them to life. In this moment, it felt like it still needed more, so into the grain I rubbed hues of green, of red and orange and a deep brown.
In this moment, I saw the bucket of joint compound, and remembering the joy I felt the last time it oozed between my fingers and built upon my canvas, I layered it on, fingerpainting swirls of pine and olive and forest green onto my piece. In this moment, longing to continue working with my fingers, I dripped a dark ink down the board, and I watched as it rolled down the glossy surface, blending and bleeding into the joint compound below.
In this moment...
Perhaps art isn't always about having a plan, perhaps art is about having fun, about working with your hands, about experimenting and trying new things and making something beautiful simply because it brings you joy. My "process" on this piece has been hardly a process at all, it's just in that moment, whatever I feel, whatever I'm inspired by around me, I create a representation of that. Together, this piece is truly a look into my life, a look into my heart.