Thank you thank you, Alison!! I have been so happy, creating these — it gives me a huge, gratifying sense of my own power and purpose to be articulating my mission statement in such a way. 🙂
This statement is really lovely. I love the word “resonant”, and I think you’ve managed to paint a picture here with your words as well as your watercolors. I really love this series you’re doing. I’m curious what your process is – do you write things out and then watercolor them, or let them come as you’re painting?
Thank you, Chelsea! I love “resonant” too, not just as a word but for the associations it conjures. In downtown Berkeley there is a giant tuning fork with a little bowl-shaped bell on it that you can listen at. Around the same time that I discovered the tuning fork, Erik and I went to hear the premiere of a quartet by one of his music teachers, called “World a Tuning Fork” and inspired by a line in one of her husband’s poems that goes “world a tuning fork/lift-up-over sounding.” So when I think “resonant” I think of that exciting, receptive time in my life; I think of music; I think of poetry; and I think of standing in an urban center listening to the pitch of the world. 🙂
As to my process, it varies piece by piece. With this one, and with “Chickens,” I did the writing first, and that underwent a number of revisions before it ever made it to a visual draft. But then text that reads well doesn’t always look well on the page, so usually I do some on-the-fly revision when I’m painting too. So each of the installments in this artist statement went through several written revisions as well as a couple of visual drafts. But sometimes I let the writing flow a little more freely — when I made the Tisha book that was completely spontaneous writing, though I plotted out some of the drawings before I started the writing.
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I am loving these so far!!!! 🙂
Thank you thank you, Alison!! I have been so happy, creating these — it gives me a huge, gratifying sense of my own power and purpose to be articulating my mission statement in such a way. 🙂
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At this stage, I need to embrace my artistry.
Your work is encouraging. Keep at it!
Thank you for the encouragement, Ceezpaul! You too — keep going. 🙂
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This statement is really lovely. I love the word “resonant”, and I think you’ve managed to paint a picture here with your words as well as your watercolors. I really love this series you’re doing. I’m curious what your process is – do you write things out and then watercolor them, or let them come as you’re painting?
Thank you, Chelsea! I love “resonant” too, not just as a word but for the associations it conjures. In downtown Berkeley there is a giant tuning fork with a little bowl-shaped bell on it that you can listen at. Around the same time that I discovered the tuning fork, Erik and I went to hear the premiere of a quartet by one of his music teachers, called “World a Tuning Fork” and inspired by a line in one of her husband’s poems that goes “world a tuning fork/lift-up-over sounding.” So when I think “resonant” I think of that exciting, receptive time in my life; I think of music; I think of poetry; and I think of standing in an urban center listening to the pitch of the world. 🙂
As to my process, it varies piece by piece. With this one, and with “Chickens,” I did the writing first, and that underwent a number of revisions before it ever made it to a visual draft. But then text that reads well doesn’t always look well on the page, so usually I do some on-the-fly revision when I’m painting too. So each of the installments in this artist statement went through several written revisions as well as a couple of visual drafts. But sometimes I let the writing flow a little more freely — when I made the Tisha book that was completely spontaneous writing, though I plotted out some of the drawings before I started the writing.
Beautiful Lisa. Art is a complexity and a simplicity, just like life. 🙂
Thank you, Walter! That’s what I think too. 🙂