Thursday, February 4, 2010

Friday, November 13, 2009

And that's how I justify buying myself flowers.


29540016, originally uploaded by unobservant_bird.

"Nothing is more necessary than the unnecessary." ~Guido's uncle, Life is Beautiful

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

A thousand fibers.



"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." ~Herman Melville

Monday, November 2, 2009

It's been a Jonah day.



The kind of day when all the little mistakes you didn't realize you had made in the last week...two weeks...month, catch up to you at the same time and throw themselves, mocking, into your face.


That kind of day.

But a new day follows today, and, Lord willing, there will be a new day even after that. And after enough new days have passed, maybe then I will have learnt wisdom.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Trying not to say anything.



"I try not to say anything with my art," the Artist Statement began. To which I laughed, because that's not the kind of thing one ought to admit to in an Artist Statement, not if one wants to be taken seriously.


And yet, I approach art in the very same way, which is why I have never considered myself to be an artist. I don't care so much about "saying something." If that means that I will never be called an artist, that's quite alright. Because it doesn't matter what lofty title I go by (or not), I will keep learning and keep creating; in the end all I really care about is offering a bit more beauty to those around me.