THE PROCESS
Technical skills, tricks and methods aside….
The process of creating art is sometimes thought of as a spark that ignites a vision and in turn produces the end product.
More often than not it does start with a spark but it is in the doing that the art comes to being. The act of using one’s mind and body together and the interaction of materials, emotion, and ideas are what power my synthesis to the end result. When it works, the final piece is more than the initial vision – and yet not the whole of that vision either. It is a compromise between the brain and the artists’ ability, the limits to what can be processed from that “spark” and to what is actually rendered.