While I have seemed from the outside to be far less active in my work of late, I have been working on a problem that has been plaguing me for a number of years. My project at the moment is still in the planning stages, though is tentatively being called “Steps”.

Steps will me a series that will grow from a former set of sculptures that I have created. The “Stepping Out” being the key piece of that set. These new works will be far larger, closer to life sized works. They will work with the idea of transition from one plain to another. However unlike past works I will not have this work being based on the table top. This will be my first full Wall Series. Accumulating in a project many of you have heard me speak of about with a ceramic “Wall” or slab measuring I hope close to 7ft tall and 10ft long with at least 5 figures being featured in a state of transitional motion.
Like many large ideas like this I understand that this could take a number of years to come about, though now is the time that I am starting. These figures have been living in my head for so long that they have started to become real to me. I would like to start making them real for everyone else.

Well the one thing that hurts more than anything else with this recession is the change in the viewing of art. It has always been the art that goes from the mind of people when money is tight. This dose not mean that we stop making that art that our heart tells us to.
However it dose mean that there are a lot of things about it that we have to give up. For me it is my studio, or at least the mass access to it. I have also given up my time, and the time that could have been used for festivals. As many people have done in the past I have been working in a non-art position that will help fend off the wolves at the door while the economy smoothes out.

The hard thing about this is the lack of control in life, and the fear of losing myself by giving up on my work to make a living and try to show responsibility when it comes to those in my life. I would hate to make those that I live with and are now helping me having to always to have to do so. I hope to someday be able to stand on my own, so to do so I have to give some of myself just like they have for me. I can only hope that it will not permanently effect my career.

CPCC is holding another art festival this year at which I will be selling a few of my works. CPCC is having many art related events all week, resulting in a Festival on the Green from 9:00am-4:00pm there will food, drinks, and a breast cancer walk, and much more. I will be sharing a tent with another local artist LAS Potter. Lisa is on my Etsy team and will be offering a number of works as well. She happened to be my artist of the month this time round so he art can be found on my other blog.
I am hoping that this will be the kick off for a new year of festivals. These last few weeks have been a little crazy, not only getting ready for this time of year. I have been shifting to another day job that will allow me to more freedom to work with my art once I am settled into the position.