It is a good reminder that sometimes (often, mostly?) the beginning and maybe the whole process is a mystery. The beginning often looks a mess and it is easy to give up because why continue when you don't know where you are going and it is a mess, embarrassingly so.
But what if we continue just because there is a pull, all call, a tiny curiosity of what if? What if we just followed the thread, took the direction, risked it ending up a horrible mess because maybe the result is not important part. The process is. The discovery is. The faith that how ever it ends up, the journey is the art. If the muses are kind perhaps the result is pleasing. That is a bonus.
When I look at art, or craft, or any creative result, I appreciate the result absolutely. But that result carries, unseen, every bit of time, struggle, joy, angst, worry, curiosity, of the process and it is the process that gives the depth. This is why handcrafted carries an energy that mass produced never can.
One of the most magical things I've seen was an exhibit of DiVinci's sketchbooks. There were pages of text and drawings and ideas for inventions before there time. But it was the margins, the margins where I could see the ideas in rough marks, the erased lines, the smudges of ink, the doodles, the seeds of masterpieces yet to come. It was as if I got a glimpse into his inner workings. It changed how I see his work, and the work of others, I started to understand
process not just result.
Start. And then keep going. And then shift, change, adapt, modify, re-invent. And then keep going.
4.
Just don’t give up what you’re trying to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
—Ella Fitzgerald
5.
A blessing for your week:
