New space, new thoughts

I moved yesterday to a new house. and I have a new desk. I feel completely inspired again.

I finished my latest card for my card project, and it might be my favorite one yet. I'm still taking blurry pictures of the cards. I need to get out my tripod and put it to use. There are two other cards that are "finished" from the two weeks prior, but I'm not ready to take pictures of them yet, because I'm not happy with them.

I was thinking about my art today while sitting at church, and the way I approach the idea of finished work.  The sermon today was on growing in a relationship with God, and that we're a work in progress - an unfinished work - we are striving toward being finished, but will never actually finish - or reach that perfection, and that it's frustrating sometimes when we see things wrong with ourselves, but can do nothing to fix them - especially in a relationship with God - where we are so flawed.

So I was thinking, if I project my spiritual life - my relationship with God into my paintings, then maybe that's why I have a hard time creating a finished work, because I -as a person - am never finished. In my paintings I white wash, paint over, re-draw, leave parts of paintings exposed, change and cover other parts. Just the same way I approach my life - always looking for a way to move, challenge the way I think about things, re-create myself - look for change and movement in my life... I myself am a work in progress, so that is reflected in my creation. I guess this is one of the ways that I insert myself into my art. I'm still thinking about this and working out what it all means, but I think it might lead to something interesting with my next cards. I always like to think about my art in new ways, and what it all means, and why i create the way I do - and why I create at all.