“What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.”
-John Updike
The simple luxury of time – breathing room – time to experiment with some new pieces. I read somewhere that a recession should be thought of as a recess.** I like that idea, timeout for the soul to play and regroup. The gloom and doom in the news everyday is difficult to bear at times. I am working hard on focusing, creating new pieces and watching as things slowly begin to change in the world. I have added a few new areas to my website. An online sale area for studio sales and a new gallery to showcase some of my smaller works. Art is important.
-Deborah
www.deborahcolter.com
**I found where I read this great thought!! It was posted on the NAIA forum for artists by Patricia Hecker. Here are her wonderful thoughts: “There are days I feel very depressed about the climate of selling my work. There are other days where I see this as a time of growth and opportunity. If we think of the word recession and think of it more as ‘recess’……it can become for us the ‘break’ from routine it was when we were in grade school. We probably all loved recess in school. We now have a ‘new’ version of the same. Maybe not as fun, but the time to do things differently. An intermission to re-group.”
Thank you Patricia!
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Art IS important. Keep on inspiring me.
Deborah,
Thanks for the inclusion! We’re all going to be okay, maybe even better for the resilience this is building within our creative spirits!
I’ll be linking your blog to mine!
Here’s to making our own, uplifting media buzz!
Patricia
TattooDreams.blogspot.com
Thanks for posting such a thoughtful comment! I believe the creative spirit will see us all through.
Breathe!
Loved Pat’s original post and then loved your take as well. I also see this as “breathing room”, time to work on those new pieces I haven’t had time to explore. I’m looking forward to seeing what we all come up with!
Bonnie