Wonder-Full items in Clay!

ETSY is a terrific online sales site and they offer a feature called "Treasuries" that any member can contribute. A Treasury highlights the work of 12 different artists and I find that composing one is a delightful endeavor of its own!

I created one composed of items by different artists......all of whom work in clay. I always marvel at the unique approach each takes with their work! It's fun to view and I welcome you to take a peek! It will only be "up" for three days.

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=50381

The Artist's Impulse.....

"He can only obey the apparently alien impulse within him and follow where it leads, sensing that his work is greater than himself, and wields a power which is not his and which he cannot command." Carl Jung

I've been asked many times "where do you get your ideas?"

Call it impulse, call it revelation, call it dreaming, call it the artist's "BREATH"......it is as NATURAL to me as breathing....and I've often purposely used a double negative to describe this....."an artist can't NOT make art"....for, indeed, it does seem a work greater than oneself, it's on the inside and must come out. Perhaps a form of communication, expression and, for me, a path of supreme adventure. The making of art, the ideas,.... the conceptions transforming into reality bring a satisfaction deep and enduring.

Early AM Thoughtstream

"Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact". William S. Burroughs

Does anyone really realize how the hand of the artist is ever present in their daily lives?
Who designed the car you drive?
How about the style of your home, your furniture, kitchenware....what about colors? Like, who is the driving force behind "popular color schemes" for the upcoming year?
How about clothing?....style/color? ad infinitum......

In the larger scheme of things, how about Leonardo daVinci sketching a flying machine?

Today, on the drawing boards of many an artist are the plans for what we'll experience in the future......

Favorite Quote......

"The need to make art may not stem solely from the need to express who you are, but from a need to complete a relationship with something outside yourself. As a maker of art you are custodian of issues larger than self."

....."Art & Fear" by Bayles & Orland