Or we try to, at least!
With every project planned and presented, so many little things can go wrong. You do your best to anticipate the mistakes, to foreshadow the accidents, to provide just the right amount of what to do and what to avoid! So I make several examples for each project, then of course, there’s the actual video presentation itself, which can have things go wrong that must be corrected in the moment. That’s part of the challenge, the sort of excitement for me. I never know what will happen, I must think on my feet, and it feels just as though I’m right back in the classroom demonstrating for 28 high school students, as I did for 22 ys, in 5 different classes a day, 5 days a week.
I would get into the Flow of just Do It. Move forward in life, onto the next project, the next piece of art that hopefully reflects where each person is in that moment of time. It’s a fascinating way to live.
The other aspect of it all is working with a certain amount of supplies, and creating original art that uses the paint, ink, matte medium, and image transfers in totally unique ways in each presentation. In my Wabi Sabi classes that I’m creating now, they will run for 4 weeks, with a new project each day, for a total of 20 new ways to create a personal piece of art. That really stretches the imagination. It’s fun and mind expanding. I become a Sherlock again, investigating new techniques, combining methods in new ways, and getting unique results each time. It’s like Living Creativity each day, in the moment. When you think like this, the magic gets going and ideas, examples, flow into your life as if drawn by magnetism. There are so many possibilities, the challenge is in whittling them down to the best, easiest, and most beautiful techniques. It’s a class I would enjoy taking as much as I’m enjoying creating it.
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