Hi Marsha, sometimes I think painting is the only useful thing I can do and that I should put aside all other considerations of family and finance.
I sometimes I think that the more time I could spend painting then the less I would have wasted my life. And yet I rarely remember those moments of conviction and the reality is that I'm very lazy when it comes to painting! I thoroughly agree with you that painting is therapy but, unlike you, I think it has to be seen by others to attain it's full value. -Peter On 20/11/2007, MarshaV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > Maybe I am an exhibitionist, or just plain luney, but painting is an > experience different than anything else in my life. Printmaking was > the same and it's taken a long time to get back to really working > from the inside out. I don't know if trying to talk about it will > ever make any sense, but I seem to be compelled to try to talk about > it to dig deeper. > > If you could see the first print I made after my husband died maybe > you'd understand. It was so dark and scary that it really frightened > me. I think it is safe to say it was of a woman splintered and out > of her mind. I don't want to produce such darkness. There's too > much negativity already. I just didn't want to go there. > > In 1998 I spent the summer in Italy with a friend and a group of > primarily art students. I wasn't sure I'd like the art. I thought > it was all that religious stuff. But WOW!!! It swept me away. I > decided the only thing to do was to just paint. > > You can't think painting, at least I can't. It has to be quite the > opposite. I have to let go. Geez, words suck!!! The painting is > both the trip and the safety net. But this MD Discuss forum is also > been very special to me. It's given me a way to restructure the > world in a way that makes sense during the daylight hours. It's a > beautiful map! And you are all beautiful. In a strange way you are > more my family than my family. You are my sangha. > > So I thank you all for your giving. > > Marsha > > p.s. I've got another painting started. It's much different that > the last one, but also the same. > > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
