Day 275 of Year 2 (Actually Day 280)
Still playing. I've been exploring this looser technique for the last 4 nights. I'd like to acknowledge a very generous artist, Lisa Pressman. Her style of art is quite different from my own. It is abstract and full of emotion in very beautiful ways. Recently, she did a Facebook live session and I watched her work. I love the way she makes art, working on multiple paintings at once and picking up scraps of paper, leftover paint, etc using them freely with complete trust in her process. It took a while for this to filter into my system but seeing her work helped me be freer and more trusting. I feel like a weight has been lifted. I write this to thank her but also because it is a great example. We all leave footprints in the world and most of us will never know the extent to which our being here matters. If I hadn't written this, Lisa would not know her influence on me. I know you, reading this now, have positively impacted people in ways you will never know. You matter. This is such an importance and difficult lesson for many artists to learn. It requires radical trust. The certitude that the creative process matters though we may never know how. Maybe it changes the artist, maybe it goes into the world and effects someone deeply, the possibilities are vast. The only thing to do is put one foot in front of the other and trust the footprints we leave behind do their work.