Peace.

How can you give more love in this moment?

When I shared I was going to be a dad again, an artist friend of mine told me “ wow you’re going to be under a rock for a while”. I understood where he was coming from, both of us being dads; naturally I let that comment roll off my shoulders and kept it moving. I won’t lie but the comment did sting and it comes back to me when I get caught up with thinking about my art making. It makes me think about how all the other creative parents made it, and continue to make it happen by sticking true to their craft while tending to the responsibilities of parenting and family building. It isn’t easy…but somehow the work gets done and making it look easy is the perception. I suppose “being under a rock” could play out as a tired excuse, a mantra you will believe if you’re not sticking to the game. I’m learning everything we see, every situation we find ourselves in, only becomes an emergency if we decide to call that scene just that, an “emergency” as opposed to “this”, the situation at hand.

I continue to look through all of the scans my son buffaloed through and I cant help but go back in time, I remember where I was when each sketch was made, a lot of it is scattered meat but meat nonetheless. Visual time portals as my favorite song is my audio time portal, I go back.

Fact is there is no rock to come out from under, there is only the man made idea of “time”, and it is not to be wasted. Working on this collection and writing about it are all bricks for the bigger picture movie house. I dont need to post new work to convince anyone that Im working…fact is, Im working when the rest are still sleeping.

I can give more love and understanding by shifting the mindset…smashing the so called rock.

Peace.

Blust.