{Torso Project :: Step One}

Who knew it was so easy to order a mannequin online?  I did a quick google search a few weeks ago and a few days later I had a female torso sitting on my studio floor.  I don’t want to spill the beans on what I plan for this beauty, I thought I would instead document the process here and let it unfold that way.  This is one of the few instances in my artistic process where I see with perfect clarity what I want to create ahead of time, and it is now a matter of figuring out how to do that with the materials I have.  With most pieces, I simply start throwing paint and materials on a wood panel or canvas and see where it takes me.  I am curious to see how things go with this latest idea – not only is it already fully formed in my mind, but this is also a three-dimensional piece.  I’m not sure it could technically qualify as a sculpture…I think assemblage is a more appropriate term.

{Torso Project :: Step Two}

After moving in and out of my studio all week with nary an art supply lifted let alone used, I finally dipped my toe back into work yesterday and today my mojo is back in full force.  I got some extraordinary news today which means the timeline for my main project of the year has to be moved up a month, but the truth is that I work much better with a deadline and I am actually happy the heat is being turned up a tad.

To use the word of a friend, I am feeling soft in all of my creative projects these days.  Soft as in content; soft as in wide open, fluid, organic, unattached, willing to lean a little bit farther in to the side of letting the path unfold for me versus trying to structure it the way I think it should be.  The fire inside me is not churning wildly with sparks flying all over the place, but is instead burning slowly and steadily, and I carry it with me everywhere I go.