The Stretchiness of Time

 

2015 was tied up in this book, in the rigidity of one page: one week, when some weeks felt empty of expression and some pages felt too small for all that was flooding out of my imagination.

 

By mid year it had taken on a thick, heavy persona with paint all gooey and chewy and some weeks where no amount of layers would cover up the uncomfortable truths of ugly: a parallel to the world it was illustrating. Something intangibly off. Something meh. Some things I didn’t like, didn’t like confronting, didn’t like to witness. I didn’t want to relive, repeat, or even properly acknowledge.

The book served a purpose: A lesson in being a grown up is knowing when to persevere, and when to stop. I persevered. And when the year was up I was glad the book was full. Finished. Finally time to move on. Onto what next. 

What next?

 

…And then a really long time seemed to pass, and I rested. A really long time that went quickly, and dragged slowly and passed in a flash.
Because Time is Weird like that…

 

I found myself cutting out shapes from magazine pages, scrap paper and junk mail. Something was stirring, I didn’t know what…

Last week I fell into a new facebook group run by the gorgeously art journally Orly Avineri. It was the catalyst I needed to jump into this new book.

I’ve got gesso under my nails and ink on my face again.

I feel like I’ve come home! 

This book is different, there are no limitations and no rules.

Free to fly in and out, land a while –

– chat with my thoughts, flit off again.

It takes as long as it takes.

I’m getting more and more aware that by pouring out my unconscious I can steer myself through this life in a fashion not like anything else.

It’s a compulsion.

You get this too, right?

Everything that was feeling stale and sludgy has dropped away since just this first page.

Life feels like spring time: new pages are beginning to blossom.