me, back

First up, thank you so much for all your very wonderful comments in my last post! i really appreciate all your words of encouragement. altho it's getting so much harder to lose the weight now, but i guess the word is "soldier on"! and weight is not everything ... at my age, being healthy is the key.

alrighty!! now back to some work that i've been up to prior to the last post. made a pair of rather simple earrings called Seedling.

Galadriel said in the Lord of the Rings, "even the smallest person can change the course of the future". well, i say, "even the smallest of seedling may one day feed a thousand people"

i also made another book necklace, the Lady. 

inspired by one of my favourite classics, Wuthering Heights, this came out of a excerpt by Heathcliff : "Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!" 

this guy must be one of the most tormented and demented antiheroes ever written, but you can't really not love him for the undying (albeit sadistic) love he and Catherine both shared.

this next piece was the result of failed inspiration for a book commission :( i got so frustrated with thinking about the cover design one day, i thought i would just take a break. started meddling with some scrap metal on the table and before i knew it ...

well well, what do you know ... one door closes, another opens. but in this case ... when all the doors are closed, i say, use the DAMN KEY!! :) 

so what do you do when your inspiration dries out, or is focused somewhere else and not at the place you want it to be?

i saw this on Pinterest, the wise words of a master. i laughed becos he is so frickin direct, but you know what ... he is SO frickin right!!

"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up & get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part & a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you." ~ Chuck Close