A Note About Inspiration

I used to think art was about vision. About seeing something in your head and then having the skill to translate that into something other people could see. And since I couldn't go directly from seeing with my head to creating with my hands, I thought art wasn't for me. But art is really just taking what you see and pushing it around and squishing it and holding it up to the light to see what ELSE there is to see. With your head or hands, makes no difference.

Then when you see what else there is to see, you suddenly can see how another thing can squish or twist into the first thing.... viola. You made something squishy and twisted. :)

Little bone skulls in a seed pod, strung with picture jasper beads. Sold it at the Festival of the Cranes this past weekend. I'm happy to say this did NOT come directly from my head to my hands, it was very much more experimental squishing.