Jun 15, 01:28 am
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY behind.....WEEK#3...CirclePrompt {finally}
i don’t know why i have been so behind in my art journal. i’d like to blame it on circumstance beyond my control. but the fact of the matter is that i could easily make time for this if i needed to. the real reason, i think, is that i have been paralyzed. by many things. by:
—the amazing work i consistently see here—the complexity of emotion i try to pour onto my pages—the fear of not creating as my best self—the talented company this challenge keeps, many of which are my idols and mentors.—the size of my pages (11” x 17”), which though once i get going is GREAT, but starting seems such an enormous task—there are probably a plethora of other equally paralyzing factors, but i won’t bore you with any more…
so here {finally} is my entry about ‘circles’. i immediately gravitated towards emotion/mental health/cycles, and began documenting the huge shift in emotions i struggle with on a consistent basis. the fact that i cycle from depression to near-mania, and everything else in between. then the realization came that as unreliable as my emotions ARE, the one thing that IS reliable is their irregularity. hence, the title, “Reliable Irregularity [cycle]”.
Primarily composed of acrylics and oils, with pen and ink. [It’s interesting that i keep trying to incorporate a lot of color, but end up covering it up each time.] I’ll capture some of my journaling here for you.
“Now, now, my dear, all in due time.”
[inside head: stay in here]
“Because everything is alive and [organic], it grows.”
“And because it grows, it exists on a cycle ~ around&around.
i grow. i move. i am alive. i return. i learn.”
[outside of screaming head: out of my mind]
“We do not travel straight up and straight back down again.
growth=pain
cycles=reliability minus comfort
because what goes up must come down.”
thanks for checking it out. i am going to commit to recommit to my art journal!! because this really did feel great to create.
~tia
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