Luminous Layers
Birthing an Idea : From Concept to Completion San Diego International Airport Exhibit
Creativity in one form or another has always been a part of my life . Even during my professional careers as teacher and healthcare counselor I yearned to find meaning in my experiences of the everyday through being as creative as possible . Writing , photography , mixed media and now encaustic painting has enriched my life through the making of art . My encaustic works illustrate a fusion of both my passion for the creative process and the heat at every level of encaustic . Art is transformative in that I am changed ; the viewer is changed just as the wax changes from solid to liquid and back to solid .
Experimentation and the scientific aspects of creating encaustic art is extremely satisfying as I continue to explore through art the way I view the world .
Where do our ideas dwell ? Where do they come from ? Isn ’ t true that we either have a ton load of them or nothing at all ? What happens when an idea becomes a reality ? I recently attended a curators walk and talk through the current exhibition at San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla . The word “ idea ” was used frequently and I learned from the discussion that it is more the idea that is appealing to curators than the shape that idea takes . I love when an idea is ignited within me . There is a physical , emotional and spiritual reaction that I feel when an idea comes to mind and at that moment it seems as if everything else stops . Having a project journal is a wonderful way to contain these ideas many of which have taken shape in the form of art and yes , some of those ideas still sit on those pages waiting to be realized .