tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29258841.post5955374053163834393..comments2024-02-14T04:51:51.606-05:00Comments on susangaylord.com: Thoughtful Thursday-StaminaSusan Kapuscinski Gaylordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10174952588173490738noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29258841.post-36450302391355633252012-09-20T06:21:10.815-04:002012-09-20T06:21:10.815-04:00susan, the last photo is so inviting, i want to se...susan, the last photo is so inviting, i want to see the rest, but what i wanted to say is i sucked me right into those letters! wonderfulVelma Bolyardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12446502295849533888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29258841.post-36141651665413313202012-09-08T10:56:04.915-04:002012-09-08T10:56:04.915-04:00Thanks for all your thoughts and for the link to t...Thanks for all your thoughts and for the link to the Leonora Carrington article. Loved it.Susan Kapuscinski Gaylordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10174952588173490738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29258841.post-10515719920966418412012-09-06T17:42:16.123-04:002012-09-06T17:42:16.123-04:00You've nailed it Susan, with art (or anything ...You've nailed it Susan, with art (or anything in life really) it's the work that's important! Marketing is for the marking gurus, the spin doctors, the curators, the gallery owners, and art critics! As artists our job is to make the art!<br />I love Leonora Carrington's (a surrealist artist who passed away recently) thoughts on painting from this article<br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2007/jan/02/art<br />" ... When I ask her how a painting comes about, what the impetus is, she fixes me with the Moorhead stare. "You don't decide to paint. It's like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It's a need, not a choice."<br />When I was at the Pilchuck Glass School I asked the Czech glass artist Dana Zamecnikova where she found her inspiration & she replied-<br />"Where else can we put all the fears, joys, sadness, frustrations & wonders but in the art?"<br />All this week I have been thinking a lot about how Art (with a capital A) happens when an idea becomes a shared rather than an internal experience. It's in the moment of setting the work free into the world & letting others see it.... that's the point where the meaning of the work develops (or not as the case may be). Sometimes a work can be utterly magical to the maker but it doesn't release well, it can't fly on it's own and ends up crashing to the floor... maybe it just needs to be reworked a little and launched again but sometimes it just plain doesn't work & needs to be buried with respect or else put on that shelf in the privacy of the artist's home with all the other almost real dream things to wait for its time, like an ephemeral in the desert waiting for rain... hmmmm.... <br />NB I have been drawing since I was 5 years old 52 years later I am still learning!Mo Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09004208849028911104noreply@blogger.com