Today I tried out welding and grinding in the studio. I cleared out the front half of the room and it worked out great. I finished up the fireplace cover, except for the patina.
Tonight, while working on my sewn shoe piece, I listed to some podcast of essays by Emerson. I love what he had to say about art. He was talking about how when an artist is working on a particular piece, in a particular medium, that is the only thing that seems to exist, worth doing for that time. I don't think that he was referring to the commonly talked about "being fully in the moment" focus that is said to be experienced by artist while they make their art. Instead, he was commenting on something more specific that I have noticed many times. When I am excited about welding the next, new table, I seem to lose interest in paintings and the other way around. I have found this with gardening (as he mentioned) and building my patio. Recently I was excited about a new style of painting but I quickly became consumed with my present sewing piece and the thought of taking a break to paint before it's done seems impossible. Luckily I'm almost done with the sewing piece and I'm pretty confident that my 2 large canvases, that are waiting, will have plenty of inspiration when I get back to them.
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