Homage to Brooklyn

A lazy Sunday. I think I envisioned this one at the beginning of last week. Somehow in this new mode, I haven't the time to really relax.

Today was yoga, followed by a video on Brasil, then an attempt to make pizza dough that ended up with watery flour. We walked over to w'burg and had pizza at Fornino and then took a walk to the 8th street park. I love that park, because as Kev says it's the anti-park. Not groomed, not organized just carved from what used to be access to the East River through the shipyards. We threw rocks in the water, unsuccessfuly "skipping" and then Kev found the rusty nail.

It got me started and now I'm going to do a little small collection on the "Homage to Brooklyn" idea. I'm sure it's been done before, but I love the way these look and they'll make a fun little ensemble of jewels. I think it would sit well in "Slikar" gallery, my new visit to Sarajevo in a few months. I need to do some work for that and this will be a good way to do something that represents where I am, physically at least.

working away and collaboration thingies

Well, I finally got around to starting and finishing the bridal project I have going on for my old neighbour. It's been awhile since I've made something more sculptural like that. It involved starting from thick and ending with thin. Hammering, filing, hammering some more, filing sanding...lots of work. I think they came out quite nice.

On the other hand, I've thought again about collaboration. I sometimes read different blogs by artists whose work I like camillaengman.blogspot.com and I love to see people collaborating. This blog world that exists out there has brought together people that would've otherwise never met. I've said numerous times that there's a design network out there, these women/men who are making art and pushing each other, promoting, buying, collaborating. It's quite amazing and quite inspiring. Not to say that because I read about collaboration I feel like I should do the same, but this notion has come up numerous times before and I think it would be nice for it to come to fruition. I've done one with Staci http://stacisnider.com a few months back and it was quite fun. Perhaps there'll be another one on the horizon soon.

snippet

Kev just took a short breather outside for a smoke. Not something I approve of, but then again it's not mine to approve. He handed me a small piece of our evergreen tree we have in our yard, and said, " this looks like your earrings, deconstructed". I love that he has thoughts like that and I appreciate them.

Our lives are changing, rapidly and it's hard to see what the next thing on the horizon is, but I find a lot more beauty in him now than in recent times. Something about his honesty is endearing.

I can't really allow myself to think too much about what the next thing is because I will freak out, but in moments like this I wonder. My urge to control things is SLOWLY subsiding, but at the same time all the "pie charts" as I've been known to make are disappearing and I'm uncomfortably making myself comfortable with it. I've begun to obsess with the "steadies" but at the same time I realize that soon enough I'll have to let go of that too. And this is DEFINITELY not something I'm familiar with. In my fictional moments where my life is written out by another me, this is something I yearn for, but not in this reality. My mother always says, "you are what you dream , that is where your reality is", and there's something to be said about that, but then again I dream some impossible things.

My new days

I've just jumped into this what is next. No time off, no transition just an easy in and out, like it's always been this way.

Went out and saw Nick. Asked for a fashion sketch oriented help. He agreed, can't wait to see it, it desperately needs to complete the Ro-Mia project. That's us in his creepy elevator.

Also finally did my fold over ring. This is phase one, the one without the walnut veneer. Next up is walnut edition time. I thought this one would be less complicated, alas it doesn't seem that way. The fold over is quite difficult to maneuvre with fine thin veneer. TBC. Have other ideas that need to get into 3d format, but am now preoccupied with having the "steadies" again. New term, "steadies", prolific I'm becoming.

The New Beginnings

Today is the first day of the new chapter. I will avoid to be my usual self. The one that has all the planning, all days figured out from the get go so I can protect myself from boredom and thinking about "what if it doesn't work out".

I've been lucky enough to spend a lot of time recently turning inwards and finding ways to reconnect with myself and I think this new chapter is coming at an excellent time. I feel confident in myself and in my work that I will allow for it to just carry my on and into the unknown.

I've always yearned for that, but was a little scared of loosing the steady safe ground that I've created for myself. I guess I just got that little nudge.

I am incredibly happy to have support in my partner in crime. For a while it was a thorn in my side, he was so unenthusiastic about the idea, but now that things organically happened in this direction he is quite supportive. So Thank You!

I will use this space to organize my thoughts and as something that I can always come back to and look to as my little playlist. I am incredibly happy right now and I will impregnante my entire mind with this feeling so it carries me through everything that comes my way.

I am happy in my small space and I will grow out of it into many different directions.