And Away We Go

Here we are, the launch of a new blog, me officially getting my rear in gear to talk about art in general, crafts, history and anything those topics bring up (which covers just about everything).

After moving away from my core social support group, I have turned increasingly to art and crafts to structure my life. Since I was very young art has had a prominent part in my life, be it coloring, posters in my room, photography, sewing, embroidery, making clothes for my stuffed animals or reading books with my parents.

Then college, first an associates degree in technical theatre, where I discovered art history durring an elective course. From there to state school first in art history and then back to theatre, this time as a designer. This is where I became addicted to art, before it was only to theatre, there it was a facination with the people and the rush of shows, but design blew it all open for me.

I saw the connections spreading out, how history, art movements, psychology, color theory, anthropology, writing, architecture, social structures and the whole world lay interlaced in awe-inspiring beauty, stunning in its complexity, elegant, tangled and wonderfully obscure. I saw that nothing stands isolated.

It is in this world that I now live, having chosen to revel in it. It is from here that my creativity comes, from another artists work, an event on the news, the play of light through a drop of water, the clank of machinery out side my window, the colors of a frog, or a random internet blog.