Sometimes the only way to act is not to think all the consequences through. Alain de Botton
Category: Articles
Musings about art, creativity, productivity: join the discussion!
2011 Portfolio: Documentation
For my work this year, I’ve been mulling documentation. It’s been a career for me (software and technical editing), a source of inspiration (my genealogy research), and pervasive in our lives. Plus, I just like the look of it in a composition. Once again, I used photographs to build up colorful textures and then used…
Keeping in Touch
Are email lists worth it? I’m going to find out. What do you think?
My Travelling Trees
Twitter calls for more trees!
Exploring a Theme: Documentation
I’m thinking about documentation as my theme for this year. I love incorporating text into my pieces, and as I thought about it, documentation pervades our lives. From birth certificates to death notices, passports and transcripts, we are a collection of documented events. The concept also links to my genealogy and history interests, as well…
Lose the Fear
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. Joseph Chilton Pearce via Randel Plowman
Creating on a Deadline
The annual artEAST fundraiser 150′ of Art is upon us again. I love the idea: artEAST members produce works within the same 12″x12″ format for an online auction (running May 6-29 this year), and I have happily participated before, with my piece Verdant Haze. Of course, that time, I already had a piece I loved,…
Landscape as Portrait
I agreed to take on a commission for dear friends, to commemorate a milestone birthday. I was given lots of great material from the family as input, but was stumped on how to incorporate it all. I didn’t want an all-collage piece. But my editing background came to the rescue, and I’m paring it down…