tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80116588052868565162024-02-20T11:32:17.095-05:00Vagabond Artistry ~ Cynthia PattonQueerly Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16263783678797677280noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011658805286856516.post-12858875004559779412011-08-15T12:27:00.000-04:002015-03-23T14:48:01.248-04:00Craft Store Procrastination<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have a flyer with a ton of coupons. It seems like an OK thing to do, a pleasant or even happy affair, after all I am an artist that has been working primarily in fabric for the past 4 or 5 years. It's tools of the trade, necessary stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have a glorious stash! Not just bits and pieces but... yards and great grand chunks of lovely lovely fabrics. I look at them and love them. I see the potential in them, the animals and objects that will surely emerge when I take them into my hands. It is the same way that paint and pencils have always hummed for me with the need for use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There must be enough in my tiny space for hundreds of creations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> I have curated my collection over the last few years building it up with yardsale finds, cast offs, donations, fine quilting fabrics, and splurges on gorgeous designers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> (Hello trip to Mood in NYC anyone!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> I can really say that I have some great stuff. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">So why then the need to hit the store?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> A pleasant diversion to keep me from working.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"> that going out there keeps me from being here.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If I go to the store things will most certainly cry out to me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> I will feel the rush of creative thought, that I guess is kind of like a drug for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> I love the way that potential feels,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> how quickly the ideas and uses come to me there,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> but like any good high... it wears off</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> and then there it is at home in my studio consigned to a shelf</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> while I rush off to see what else strikes me fancy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, I am going to call my own bluff.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am challenging myself to make do with what is here for the next few weeks,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> which is kind of laugh because what I have here is pretty darn nice. </span></div>
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Queerly Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16263783678797677280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011658805286856516.post-32738013328900734562010-03-12T11:32:00.000-05:002015-03-23T15:08:07.347-04:005 Things ( a note to myself )<div class="separator" style="border: currentColor; clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">3. Check and see if the clone I have been asking for has been delivered. If it has, set it up in the kitchen with a to~do list.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">4. Clear up some space in the studio. Don't let working on the floor become the only option.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">5. Remember to breathe. Try to smile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> This IS it, stop waiting.</span></div>
Queerly Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16263783678797677280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011658805286856516.post-73385110912929732212010-02-20T10:48:00.000-05:002015-03-23T15:11:25.445-04:00Un~Fabulous (a day in the life)<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sometimes, when I tell people that I am a full time artist, I get a response like, "Well, that must be nice. I wish I had that kind of time." Now, I do admit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> I have one of the best jobs in the universe and I am amazingly blessed to be able to pursue my dreams....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">but I think it's funny that the idea of a full time artist triggers this landed lady sort of let's do lunch vision in the mind...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Like so many women, my career is only a small facet of what I do in a day... I am also a fulltime mom, housekeeper, wife, washerwomen, cook, tutor, game warden (dogs, fish, mice), ect ect.. and in reality I spend a great deal more time keeping this house and family up and running then I get to spend on my ~art~and ~creativity~.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">...but also really glorious at the same time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I love my job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Do I work better if the bathroom is clean? I think I actually might! LOL</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On most days I catch one or two hours for my own work in the morning between housework and running errands and then I go back to work again after homework, dinner, and bedtime for kids, usually around 9pm. I am pretty much building a business fueled by caffiene and insomnia!Not quite the life of leisure... but </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">is it so bad to have people consider you lucky... or think of you as living some idyllic dream of what it is to be an artist? Maybe it adds allure... I don't know. </span></div>
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Queerly Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16263783678797677280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011658805286856516.post-15944040314682078972009-03-19T08:05:00.000-04:002009-03-20T11:37:02.518-04:00Where do women create?I love art magazines. I spend far to much time and money on them. I am a magazine editors dream. I pour over them. Articles, Ads, Listings, Credits. I read the whole thing. I <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">look up</span> all the links that interest me. I hold on to the issues for years.<br />Recently <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Stampington</span> & Co has come out with a gorgeous new title called Where Women Create. The issues are filled with splendid spaces and studios. Light filled and charming. Some are bigger then my entire living space! I stare into them trying to imagine working there. Would that same place work for me? Is that the kind of storage that would finally end the battle with my own supplies? A girl can dream!<br />My "studios" have never quite reached those heights of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">organizational</span> glory or open spaced liberation. I have at times shared my studio space with freelance squirrels and mice. Like them I occupy unfinished attics or basements, wherever I can carve out a niche for myself. At the moment it is yet another cellar. This one is not to bad, in fact, I think I have a bit more room then in past incarnations and my gathering of cast off cabinets and tables are finally adding up to some actual storage/work surface! There is of course, always the need for more light and heat and when those circumstances keep me from working I also am a bit of a bag lady. OK, I am a Major Bag Lady! I perpetually lug materials and books with me. Even as I type this beside me is a bag filled with a half finished doll, the works of a new pattern, a sketch book, and the fabric I selected for my latest owl. Hey, you never know when you will get a moment of inspiration or an hour to work on something and natural daylight and feeling warm are a total bonus!<br />Do I long for an expansive light filled studio? You bet! But I can also see how Vagabond Artistry is how this women creates.Queerly Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16263783678797677280noreply@blogger.com