Tonight I meet my chair. I enter into this relationship with trepidation since once again I am faced with having to creating it one handed. It is not the way I want it to be, yet it is what it is.................
"Problems are opportunities in disguise.
If you did not face problems you would just drift through life,
and you would not gain inner growth."
Peace pilgrim
It was good to see you at the warehouse and meet some of your friends. A warehouse full of artists is quite a concept! I lok forward to seeing what your creativity will do this year!
I am a collaborator with nature, often using found objects in my clay sculpture. My greatest inspiration is my motherhood and nature. Working with clay is a tactile, spiritual interaction. It's a dance as the image emerges and takes on a life form of its own. The story gradually reveals itself and not always upon completion of the piece. It is a gradual unfolding.... "What the caterpillar thinks is the end of the world...the butterfly knows is only the beginning!"
I keep my spirit vitalized by creating mixed media sculpture, sculptural drawings, exploring narrative photography, writing, participating in collaborative art projects, volunteering for various Portland organizations, walking in the woods and along the Oregon coast collecting the next sculpture inspiration that nature offers me, enjoying the solitude of the Lake in Washington, kayaking, camping, snorkeling in Hawaii, making my voice heard as a quiet activist for various humanitarian issues, appreciating live theater and music in Portland and enjoying the vastly rich life that Oregon has to offer me, but especially spending time with my family. I am savoring my new journey as I explore the middle road of Buddhism. I try to live an "intentional life" every day with "Jo Y"! I feel like a square peg who has finally found her square hole!
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It was good to see you at the warehouse and meet some of your friends. A warehouse full of artists is quite a concept! I lok forward to seeing what your creativity will do this year!
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