Am I crazy?
Sometimes I think this might be true :D
I asked two of my closes friends recently: “On a scale from 0-100, how insane am I?”
One said 0, the other said 110 :D… there we go, I am not closer to an answer.
Why did I ask them? Because I got one of my insane-moments again. & we usually share all kinds of things with each other.
It happened last week during meditation class.
Suddenly I had this idea popping up, that I should make art with those mini-circles from these hole punchers we use to make holes into paper sheets.
Don’t ask me why, what, or anything, it just came up. And I decided a while ago, that I wont question such random ideas, no matter how crazy they seem.
I also did not have any idea what I should do, what type of art etc… my head was empty apart from this idea. So I let it be & simmer & then it came up, that I should just use some of my mini art pieces to try it out first.
So I did. I couldn’t find my hole puncher, so I bought a new one & decided to start with this piece:
You know, all kinds of thoughts were going through my mind while I was punching holes into this piece…
Its like life basically. We have a certain picture of our life in our mind, how it went, what we experienced, the people we know, the sorrow, the joy, the love…
All that could be made into one painting of your life. We often also settle down for a certain perception we have.
That ONE traumatic moment at school that shaped how shy you became.
These moments where you fought with your first boyfriend or girlfriend, that felt terrible.
The accident you had, and since which you are afraid to bike downhill a gravelroad…
All these moments we experienced make a whole life-picture.
BUT… what happens if you tear them apart? Like I was doing, punching holes into the painting. Separating all the memories & moments.
Can we make them into something else?
That school moment & your shyness could have made you much more observant about people, knowing who to open up to & who to stay away from.
The fights you had, the adrenalin that rushed through your body taught you that when you repair after fights, it strengthens your relationship.
And so on, and so forth… this destruction of my painting I decided to do ,was a perfect analogy to life.
This is what it turned out into after I was done:
You know how much fun I had doing this?! INSANE amount of fun! I liked it so much, seeing all these tiny, glittery, colorful little confettis, that used to be my artwork.
I felt care for each one of them, cos I created them and was planning to make them into something beautiful.
After I decided I like the arrangement, I also decided to make it my first page of my new paint-sketchbook. And this is the outcome:
Now… you might think that that’s it… well, its not…
This is why I asked my friends about my insanity level, cos of course I kept them updated, as I did this until very late at night.
When I get moments like that, I forget time & sense & even that I am tired. Often enough my dog Buffy needs to remind me to go to bed :D
Soo, the madness continued, cos I felt like doing more. So I took another painting of mine I did last year & thought it was a bit boring:
So then I started the hole-punching process & it was quite fun, here the progress of it:
And on my way doing that, I decided to not flatten the circles, I liked how bend they were & decided to use them in their original shape. Next stages:
First I thought it will be tricky to use these bend circles, with a bit of learning & try-&-error I ind of found my process & on the way, I decided to make it into a circle again.
Here is the final piece, I have to say, I really like it a lot! Way less boring than the initial piece :D
And here we go, the outcome of my insanity 0 or insanity 110, you can decide :D
One very big lesson I learned, once again, is: take pictures during daylight. Its kind of crucial to capture the colors properly.
It also is a bit tricky here for me right now, as here in the North of Sweden it is getting brighter each day, but the evenings are still dark & I tend to do art in the evenings during the week.
Soooo, this was it for this weeks Newsletter. I hope this little creative tour was interesting for you & maybe you feel less insane with your ideas.
And if you ever inhibited yourself because you thought your idea is stupid, or ridiculous or crazy: you get a permission slip from me to go for it!
Let’s all be a little bit crazy & get lost in creative tasks!
Love,
Daria
Daria, I love your thoughts and punch hole pictures, dancing people happy, a mat made of plastic needs, and you encircled by your friends