Art Starts Ugly!
My art starts ugly! I have to cut boards making lots of sawdust, then glue the boards together for the effects I am looking for in my piece. Sometimes I cut again, and reglue for different patterns….it’s a darn mess!
Is this just a metaphor for life? Sometimes you have to take a step back in order to take a step forward? Sometimes it gets ugly before it can get pretty? There are lessons that need to be learned before you can progress?
Tell me do the roses get seeded in the dirt before becoming beautiful plants? I wonder, if all beauty in life comes from perceived “dirt”
What do you think?
After all no one likes when it rains on their picnic, but they love having the green grass to lay on,the beautiful landscapes it brings, and the water to drink.
From Adversity comes greatness but only if you perceive the adversity to be opportunity.
Just a short rant - What are your thoughts?
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May 28th, 2008 at 2:10 am
One of the most insightful comments I ever heard about art was from a fashion designer whose name escapes me. It went some thing like, “Fashion is at first considered beautiful, but in a few years is thought to be ugly. Art is at first considered ugly, but in time is seen to be beautiful.”
May 28th, 2008 at 4:43 am
Maybe, too, the point is that you can’t always see things as they will be, and you have to trust in the process and keep working at it, knowing that it will be worth it in the end.
I think the closest comparison I can find in my own craft is the knitting of lace — while you’re working, it looks all scrunched up and pathetic and, frankly, ugly. It’s only when you wash the piece and pin it out that you can see the true beauty of it. But you have to keep working and have faith in that final step to reveal what was hidden in the lumpy sack that came off the knitting needles…
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Those are beautiful! the 700th follower should invite us all over for wine. But then we will finish it and we wont need the cork!