prayer

expect good and
give in confidence

tone

synthesizing

I need time to live with the ideas I'm working with. An idea will intrigue me but I might not know what it looks like yet. It seems to take some time for a project to take shape for me. I need to ruminate and left various options live inside my head for a little while. 


Sometimes I just need to leave the project for a weekend and return to it on Monday morning with a cup or coffee and the answer suddenly becomes obvious to me. Arranging in-process pieces on the wall in various ways helps me see relationships between concepts and materials and figure out the next iteration of a project.

filling up

"I don't think you have that kind of time either. I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good enough at it, and I don't think you have time to waste on someone who does not respond to you with kindness and respect. You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. And writing is about filling up, filling up when you are empty, letting images and ideas and smells run down like water."  Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird