Hi all!Tony Smith wrote:I know this may be an ignorant question, but when you are sad, does your glass look different than when you are happy? Are you successful in conveying these emotions to the observer?Delores wrote: Because I find life a source of joy, sorrow and inspiration and it’s a way for me to express these emotions.
Tony
Facinating thread!
I use my glassmaking (prefer to not call it "art") as a way to express myself, maybe when words are not enough or as a way to deal with my emotions (who needs a shrink when there's glass to be made LOL). When I do this kind of work, I do not think a lot,- just trying to express the "stommach feeling" with colours, shapes and symbolic items. (love symbolic art!)
http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/1c6ec3ab ... _AQph_4Izf
is a "stommach feeling kind of piece" . I'm not sure if others can "hear" something in the piece, but it means a lot to me....
Other times this emotional pieces are more light and happy, and I think it shows too....
Other times again I can use hours thinking, drawing and planning for a piece. Maybe those are better, both technically and designwise & more "thoughtfull" as you put it, but all the same I see that my emotional pieces are the ones to sell first when meeting a customer...
Just a thought,- maybe we tend to kill our inner voice in our struggle to do everything so "right"?
Humble struggler
Siw