A new project is starting here at Daily Art Works called "One Hundred Heads." It begins with the drawing of a sculpture I found amongst the roses at the Huntington Gardens during my internship in California, two years ago. A bridge between now and then.
I've always been uncomfortable with drawing faces, they never seem to come out quite right. Drawings from my art school years are filled with faceless torsos. Back then, it seemed there would be time later to get to all the things I didn't understand. Now that later is now, it's time to come face to face with faces. My 40's seem to be a time of delving into all that is uncomfortable, in order to see what is really there.
I'll be drawing one head a day five days a week in conjunction with the opening of Arise Therapeutics, my occupational therapy private practice. Five days a week means daily drawing with weekends in order to honor another project I'm working on -closing the gap between love and money. For so long, the things I love to do have lived like decorations on my life, attended to in spare time, while work has been a stressful chore that takes up the majority of my days.
Can watering the seed of what you love crack the concrete? Is it really possible to close that gap? What might happen by facing the uncomfortable?
What might happen by one hundred heads?
1 comment:
i just love how you question yourself and challenge yourself. you draw beautifully.
tara
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