1-30-07

I’m never drinking again! At least until tonight.

1-29-07

Some days are going to be less productive than others. The point is to at least put forth the effort.

1-28-07

I was trying to think of the direction a project needed to go. The images that came to me while making this collage reminded me not to push things, but to be open and ideas will flow thru me. That I am not making something, but that in the creative process I will find myself.

1-27-07

the learning quilt

1-26-07

To stay on the course I have set for myself.

1-25-07

This was an eye opening collage to make. I started making it while thinking about my motivations. It began with the intention to break the link I’ve made between success and external love. While I was putting it together I realized that the thing that is going to keep me on track is self love, pride in what I’m doing and joy found in accomplishment.

1-24-07

I focused on a new level in approaching my work while making this collage. I’ve been working in intervals which begin with a mandatory twenty minutes and allow myself to see where things are going and decide if I want to continue. Now I want to try a different variation; when I feel tired of working and am ready to talk my self into a break to go ahead and work for twenty more minutes and see if there is anything on the other side of the urge to quit.

1-23-07

Note to Self,
Remember, when you’re tired nothing is going to make much sense. If your thoughts seem irrational it is a sign that the only rational decision you can make is to go to bed.

1-22-07

It takes a lot of hard work to pull yourself out of the reasons you thing you should be doing something and into your truth.

1-21-07

It can be difficult to get all your thoughts out, but out of it will come things you never knew you’ve imagined.

1-20-07

Why am I trying to fill my self up with substitutes? What should I be doing instead?

1-19-07

I started by thinking about bringing thoughts into reality. I started to put the pieces together and found that trying to map everything out wasn’t the best thing to do. I had to follow the pattern that was being created in front of me and find the best spot for each piece of paper.

1-18-07

Thinking about life is great and everything, but there is also a time for unanalyzed action.

1-17-07

This is all about work and yield. I was trying to get to a place where my labor was producing fruits. What became clear is that the idea of fruit I have isn’t necessarily the fruit that my work must produce. And the more I opened myself up to the idea of meaningful fruit, the more images presented themselves to me.

1-16-07

to be in this moment

1-15-07

Discovering the truth about what you believed to be fact. I was thinking about why people are in each others lives and what our reactions to one another mean. It is clear that, for me at least, there is a lot of misunderstanding going. When I feel that something in someone else needs to change I am half right, that something needs to change… but it is something in me.

1-14-07

becoming aware and responsible for myself

1-13-07

I was worried about my life when I made this collage. It was in interesting experience. At first I didn’t know what sort if images I was looking for. Once I looked at everything I had collected I noticed that there was continuity that I hadn’t planed on. I then used all of the material I’d collected and learned that not everything has to be included to enforce the importance of something. I also learned a little something about what the journey has to offer.

1-12-07

creativity

1-11-07

Compromise is a problem strictly for humans.

1-10-07

How our worlds collide

1-9-07

What I think I want my life to be versus how I live my life right now.

1-8-07

identification

1-7-07

What we intend to create and what we leave behind in the process.

1-6-07

What we don’t necessarily need, but don’t want to live without.

1-5-07

getting grounded

1-4-07

While making this collage I was thinking about what options I can take to maintain the lifestyle I want for myself.

1-3-07

This is an image inspired by my difficulty trusting that financial matters are included in spiritual matters. To make the collage I unwound a piece of string. In completing this task I saw how everything is connected, how if you try and separate on aspect everything gets all knotted up and when you think you have gotten to the part you want you are actually left with something that is made up of other aspects twisted together themselves.

1-2-07

This collage was created while focusing on the feeling of frustration experienced when one doesn’t know what to ask for because one doesn’t know what one wants.

1-1-07

While making this collage I was thinking about the following intentions I have for myself in the New Year.
I want to find a balance between living in the moment and being in control of my responsibilities. I want to give myself the freedom to be myself and create an environment where others have that same freedom. I want to see the world I live in as one where nothing goes wrong. I want to be in a constant state of love and receptivity.