Comments on: Looking For A Bridge

By: colorsonmymind

colorsonmymind — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:26:44 +0000

I have been struggling with these questions, from a different point on the artists journey but about the same questions.
I don’t feel I wrote my feelings clearly but they are brimming over in my mind and can’t seem to make it onto paper without getting in a jumble.
Reading your post has given me some comfort and clarity.
Thank you

By: Popeye

Popeye — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:02:48 +0000

Maybe it’s not as much about the bridge as it’s about that flows under it. Otherwise, just go with the flow. Your art is movement and moving. . .

By: Frida

Frida — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:12:04 +0000

So much to say – I’m saving it for in person. But carrying these thoughts along with me for the next week so that I’ll be bursting to talk about it by the time I get there!
x

By: liz elayne

liz elayne — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:48:02 +0000

christine, your posts often invite me to take a deep breath and sit in the silence and feel. tonight i feel thankful for your voice and what you share here with such honesty. i love this idea of sitting with the thoughts and questions, taking them for a walk as you say, instead of pressuring yourself to know the answers in this moment.

By: Kasie@~The Art of Life~

Kasie@~The Art of Life~ — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:25:34 +0000

Hi! I just stumbled across your blog and I want to thank you for this post. You have put into words what I feel in my heart. I’m a Mother of 2 young girls. I am seeking to find my way back to my art after a time away and am full of questions about which way to go. I love the very end of the post where you talk about how “It is a gift and a curse to feel compelled to examine so many things, to ask questions and to be willing to follow them without any kind of map.”
Thank you for encouraging me today!

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:23:54 +0000

“On the one hand, I am completely fed up with the notion that I must somehow compensate for the very fortunate fact of being able to say I am an artist by undervaluing my work. On the other hand, I have an almost visceral aversion to the idea of trying to create any kind of “hype” or “cache” around my work as an artist in order make the right people believe they ought to be paying thousands of dollars for one painting. I’m not sure I want to become part of that race. I’m not sure I’d like the rules.”
You have perfectly verbalized things I’ve thought about art for years. It seems like another meaty question is–what are our thoughts worth/ideas worth? And how in the world do we go about putting a value on that?

By: kelly

kelly — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:11:25 +0000

i will take you over oprah any day!
i love this message. i have ponder it
quite often.

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:21:14 +0000

amen, sister… questions that are so integral to walking through this life as an artist… thanks for your insites and the questions that they invoked for me, and for adding more spice to the flavours of life…

By: sunny

sunny — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:45:28 +0000

I’ve been to this zen garden, and I think that the answer you’re looking for is contained within its walls. As I recall, you can’t see all of the rocks from anywhere that you sit, and this is a metaphor for life. Enjoy the view from where you are each moment. The answers will come when you’re supposed to see them.