Have you ever observed a one year old eat? It’s scrumptiously messy and delightful to witness. The food meanders from one part of the face to the whole body. It’s the analogy I use as one of the ways art leaves a mark…literally on our lives, our studio spaces, and our bodies. I find it ironic that we are creating visual order while everything else around us looks chaotic. “I promise, the end result will be great!” That’s what we want others to realize and believe. What if I told you that deconstruction is essential to many art making processes? Check this out, as a sculptor, one has to chisel and jab away at a solid form-a sort of deductive method of creating. As a printmaker a range of techniques is used for carving out negative space to form a print. I could go on and on, but that is just a tiny taste of beauty emerging out of the messy. Sometimes, just sometimes we also need an interior deconstruction in our hearts as creative people. Going through this process allows something much greater than ourselves to emerge and in the end a breathtaking outcome.
