Late Blog, Wanderings With A Camera

As you can see from my dream blog, I feel (as you do) the pressure of having little time to finish much work. So this entry is about creative relaxation. When I wake up in the mornings I immediately look out the window at my back yard to see what looks different/interesting. Often I'm inspired to immediately go out with camera in hand to capture the beauty of light, shade, reflection,shape and color. It is a way for me to save the "air" as it is now for later use. I sometimes go on short walks and drives, for the purpose of collecting found objects and images, that provide a way to relax while using the time productively. I have always been a collector and so have many collections of everything from junk and ephemera to rocks and minerals, miniature objects, and themes. These stashes inspire my creativity, my dreams and my self awareness.
Though the task was time consuming, I enjoyed making the 50 stencils. What a great collectible. They are a pleasure to use. I expect to use some more of the images I capture with my camera to, among other things, produce more stencils to use in artistic endeavors. I believe the combinations of shapes could be endless. Repetition and overlapping are just a start. What might occur while intuitively choosing and assembling these interesting shapes?
For me the process of producing art is as important as the finished pieces. Maybe more so. It is my way of being. I am so thankful for the encouragement to grow and the reminders of and introductions to various ways to keep constantly in production that were offered by my teacher and classmates in drawing this semester. Thankyou for sharing yourselves so generously. I'm inspired to question and explore the WHAT ELSE IS POSSIBLE.
Finally, I suggest that you take a look at some of the artwork of the late great CG Jung. There is a biographical documentary entitled A Matter of Heart. You can see some of his stone carving and other images in it. The book, Man and His Symbols (full color hard bound, not the inferior paperback) is also very worthwhile. A famous psychiatrist, this man was quite talented on many levels and driven to create.
Keep up your journals, Margaret