Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Willing to work badly...




Once again, Julia Cameron has inspired , challenged and rescued me.
I'm reading her The Sound of Paper, and loving the simple profundity of her insights and gentle wisdom. She seems less pedantic than in The Artist's Way, which just got on my nerves when I first read it about five years ago.
Today, Julia helped me see that 'In order to work freely, we must be willing to work badly, and once we are, we are often able to do good work indeed.'
I don't think these are particularly 'good' pieces, but they are free and they are fun - I was playing with oil crayons in the first and bits and pieces from my collage box in the other two. There was no planning - which I often do with collage - it was all free flow...