I said I wasn’t going to post most of the art I was doing because I didn’t want the performance pressure. It turns out that the lure of publishing works-in-progress is important. It keeps me accountable to someone besides myself, without which I can go weeks without making art.
So I’ll start posting daily again, as with the leaves I drew from January to June. And as with the leaves, if on a particular day I don’t want to share what I made, fine, I won’t.
But today, because and (sigh) only because I intended to post here, I honored the promise I made to myself several months ago and brought my tea down to the art room, where I blissfully cut, arranged, and pasted until the tea was cold and forgotten. I’m going to do some more in this vein. I already have some ideas for tomorrow’s experiment.
I would be interested to hear what thoughts and feelings these (this and the ones to follow) bring up in viewers, so I think I won’t title them or say what they are about for me, yet.
Sermons in Stones 
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December 7, 2022 at 4:04 pm
Karen Skold
My first reaction to the collage was “It’s a Cecropia moth!” I remember them from my childhood in Michigan. My second reaction was “Cool! Amy’s into collage!” A number of years ago, I did a bunch of collages in a workshop I was taking, and got really into it for a while. I continued “harvesting” images from magazines and calendars, and still have quite a collection. But when I tried to do it on my own, and not in a workshop where we had only a certain amount of time, I was disappointed, because I couldn’t find a way to create the image in my mind. I ended up feeling frustrated because I couldn’t make decisions without a time limit. It had really helped to be in a group where we discussed what the images meant to us afterward. Indecision and perfectionism, two of my constant challenges, have led me away from doing art. I still have music, though, as a creative outlet, both trumpet and singing.
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December 7, 2022 at 4:11 pm
Amy Zucker Morgenstern
I love collage. Just below the title of this entry is its categories; click on “collage” there and you’ll see all the posts I’ve made about collage, most of which are pictures of others I’ve made.
I remember your collection of images!
Indecision and perfectionism challenge me also. Solidarity.
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