If only we had had a “Birds Eye View” on 2020, right? I wonder how differently we would would have gone into 2020 if we had known what lay ahead for us. Looking back over this strange time, I can see that I worked completely differently this year. I was moving much slower than usual. I found the first half of this year so disjointed and at times I struggled to find flow because I wasn’t sure which way to move… I didn’t know if I was walking forward or if I was side stepping or going backwards but I was all over the place. At a point I just had to make a choice to keep moving regardless of the direction or what was going on around me.
It sure changes everything when you don’t have plans. Usually my year is planned a year ahead of time and this year, from March all my plans had been cancelled which left me feeling lost and bewildered and I was seriously lacking direction. I know many of us found ourselves in this place for 2020. I found it so interesting to re-adjust my focus without having a purpose. I had to get up and do life without an end goal… I know it sounds strange but we don’t often find ourselves in this place.
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I had to wake myself up everyday with a forced purpose and a schedule even when I didn’t really have one. I know we know these things and say we do this… but do we really? I had to create for creation sake regardless of the end result. I had to keep my brushes moving and my heart fully engaged. Part of that was using my recycled canvases and finishing works I had started last year and the other was playing with clay. The playing with clay this year really saved me and my heart many times. I did it more from a place of comfort and play than anything else. I did also side step and got deliciously distracted with Yoga during lockdown which still holds me captive. Also I eventually got to move forward when I committed to being part of the Quirk auction. However even before I committed to that I did started to find my flow #inmystudio and I can honestly say I’ve been having the most precious year in a year that has been so utterly vulnerable on so many levels.
All I can say is that I’m so grateful I had art, yoga and mediation to hold me during this year and that we found creative ways to hold each other online and be there for one another. You have no idea how that helped me this year. So I wanted to say thank you for the connection, the love and support and the beautiful friendships, creative friendships that have always been so important to me, even more so in this unfathomable year.
“A bird’s-eye view is an elevated view of an object from above, with a perspective as though the observer were a bird, often used in the making of blueprints, floor plans, and maps. It can be an aerial photograph, but also a drawing.”
