Thoughts around impermanence and wayfinding bubbled up. I carried on with my life, keeping a playful journal, jotting down inspiration as it came. Spring 2018īack in 2018, with two whole years to prepare for the exhibition, the pressure was off. Making the decision to allow the not knowing is a counterintuitive game changer. None of us are exempt from confusion, but it needn’t be made into an enemy. When there’s no clue of what that something might be, and the forceful urgency to DO dominates, that’s where self-doubt can flood in, which amps up the chaos and suffering. Anything!” can become very uncomfortable. In a world where doing is celebrated and doing nothing is frowned upon, the internal, unconscious pressure to “Do something. It’s about meeting yourself where you are, rather than where you wish you were. I’ve come to know this practice as kindness. The spaciousness resulting from this practice reveals what’s next. If we can learn to abide in the discomfort of confusion, allow the energies of disappointment and frustration without attaching a story to them, well that’s the practice. Right there is the spot where all sorts of dreams die. By bringing ideas to fruition, we risk technical learning curves and self-limiting thoughts like “I can’t” and “It doesn’t work.” We risk disappointment by bringing the sparkling, unlimited idea into the confines of three dimensions. There’s an intoxicating inflation present in that. Everything feels safe while it’s floating in the wide-open sky of possibilities. Taking dreams into form is where it gets dicey. We human beings are the conduit.ĭreaming is heaps of fun, but stopping there means I’ve only gone halfway to what’s possible. Creativity is the means by which these two things collaborate. ![]() Imagination is the opposite everything is negotiable. Creativity: The Integration of Reality and Imagination I’ve distilled my experience into words for my own edification and to support others who also journey in these realms. The exhibition, “Using The Sun To Find North,” is on view at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, through November 15, 2020. I opened to manifesting the chaos as well as the dreams into form. Working toward this show allowed a focal point out on the horizon by which to orient myself. Foundational identities of wife and mother were dissolving. ![]() I hadn’t wanted a solo show in 30 years, but being granted one in the spring of 2018 was like being thrown a life jacket. That’s where I found myself two years ago at the end of a long marriage and with my beloved daughters launching independent lives far away. People use the sun to locate which direction is north when they find themselves adrift without a compass or map. The nature of chaos is wisdom, but we must enter inside the sanctuary to receive that level of revelation. It provides something that clarity could never disclose. Pottery Making Illustrated Submission Guidelines.Pottery Making Illustrated's Print Mailing Schedule.Ceramics Monthly's Print Mailing Schedule.Workhouse Clay International ICAN Merit Award.ICAN Making a Difference in Ceramics Award.Annual National K-12 Ceramic Exhibition Award.
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