(make sure to spot the fish head in the feet🐟)
This print brings to mind of one of my favorite poems (below). "Want the change", is at the heart of being an artist. The creative act by it's very nature changes us. Creativity has its own purpose which is, in part, to polish us down to our finest selves. But for that to happen we must surrender and allow creativity to flow through unhampered. This is one of the reasons I started the monotype a day project. I have to show up even when (like tonight) I don't want to, that in itself forces me to surrender to the process. This is a larger-sized print- 22"x30".
Sonnets To Orpheus, Part Two, XII
Rainer Maria Rilke
Want the change. Be inspired by the flame
where everything shines as it disappears.
The artist, when sketching, loves nothing so much
as the curve of the body as it turns away.
What locks itself in sameness has congealed.
Is it safer to be gray and numb?
What turns hard becomes rigid
and is easily shattered.
Pour yourself like a fountain.
Flow into the knowledge that what you are seeking
finishes often at the start, and, with ending, begins.
Every happiness is the child of a separation
it did not think it could survive. And Daphne, becoming a laurel,
dares you to become the wind.”