Ups and Downs and Ups

So having been on an UP after finishing the pieces for Adkins show, and feeling pretty good about them,
AND getting into all the ACC shows for next year (which is probably NBD because less people can afford to enter them), felt really let down when I dropped them off.  I looked at them through Howard, Mary and Mare's eyes and thought "yeah, okay, whatever" and just had this pall over me even through a lot of the U2 show, which was fabulous.  Woke up with a splitting headache (AGAIN), dealing with blown car engine (AGAIN) and the whole mortgage thing (AGAIN).....I just felt myself cycling down into the abyss.  But then my friend reminds me of how unimportant all of that is, really, and that everything is, after all, going to be alright.  But that may just be because HE believes in an afterlife.  Hm.

Trinity Session

Trinity

Mother, Sun, the Lightness of Being

Tulip Poplar (detail)

Actually, I had a pretty productive week.  Finished five pieces.  Got into ACC Baltimore, both wholesale and retail (I'm not sure whether I'll pony up the extra $700 for wholesale or not) and tried not to think........well, too much anyway.

Washington Craft Show

http://www.craftsamericashows.com/WASH_main.htm

Please come to the washington craft show and support the arts!

Palimpsest

So, thinking about the layers beneath.  The layers beneath the skin.  The meaning beneath the words.
The song beneath the silence.  When we look into the forest and see the mass of trees, and look under a log and find a civilization of insects.  When we look into each others eyes and see the love shining out.

Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjB1r77JljM




Actually I should've put this on Faitheism

Adkins Arboretum Show

Do Not Be Afraid

Do not be afraid.  I'm not sure whether this is the fatalistic thing, because whatever happens is going to happen, and it's all pre-written  OR  we have absolutely no control whatsoever on what scares us the most, OR we are insignificant specs in the universe and really, our worries don't amount to a hill of beans, OR be comforted, my dear because I love you no matter what.

Wednesday

So, usually, my motto is "why do it today, after all tomorrow is another day...."  a dictum usually viewed in the rather pessimistic way, that I'm procrastinating.  Rather than think of it as procrastinating, I would rather view this more optimistically, like I believe there will be tomorrow, and the idea of tomorrow fills me with hope.

Hm.  But, if I do wait until tomorrow, well we all know tomorrow never actually comes, in the buddhist/AA sense of TODAY being the all important thing.  Thus:

So, I'm starting this blog as a more serious blog, than my other blog, faitheism, which I will still update, but have that have more personal content, where this blog will follow my journey on trying to survive as an artist in the current economic times.

All that being said,  I am a self-taught mixed-media middle-aged in-recovery woman; living out in the sticks trying to make a living.  I'm not going to post long drawn out things, I'm not like that, but I'll try to intersperse work/thoughts with the whole "how do I make this work, while not sucking up and admitting I really SHOULD be working at burger king?"  sort of tools and explorations.

If any of this makes any sense at all, keep tuned in.

 Check out my website for more info too.
www.faithwilsonart.com