Making Changes

This week has been about making changes in the way I look at things.  I started off by understanding vaguely that I was in overdrive on the artwork front, feeling scattered because I was trying to work on too many projects at once.  I re-read an article on Change from ArtBizBlog which I now can't find online but luckily printed off.  Then when I was in Adelaide and stopped for my cappuccino time, I took out my journal and started writing how I was feeling.  As I wrote, I got into the scattered feeling and started to write about my priorities, realising I was not working on those things as much as on unimportant things.  Once I had journalled about it I could change what I was doing.  I looked at Jude Hill's blog Spirit Cloth and grace Forest's blog windthread and found the change I was looking for, that is,  I became conscious that much as I now love and enjoy working with books and papers, I don't want to let go of working with textiles - so I am bringing textiles back into my personal creativity which I will share with you later.  On windthread I found a post that changed my whole concept of weaving.  I always thought of weaving as humdrum, flat, and uninspiring.  This post shows such a different perception that I am utterly inspired by it and want to incorporate it into my new piece - no I'm not scattering, this is the personal piece that I won't be using in a book form.

One way in which I thought I could change would be to try out the Picasa photo program that is on my computer.  I took an old photo, of a silk embroidery from a couple of years ago, and in Picasa changed it to Neon.

Silk embroidered Gouldian Finches and Ulysses Butterfly

 Cool!  How different is that?