Another beginning

My online journey over the years has been a series of stops and starts. Perhaps it is because I have been doing this as a “side interest” in addition to my primary profession of medicine.

Now that I have retired and my primary profession has been laid aside, I have time and energy to fully focus on an artistic side of life.

To be clear, the online presence of my artistic journey has been sporadic, having numerous starts and stops. While practicing medicine, I regularly worked on my art behind the scenes. My art  continued to slowly evolve. I perceive that most lifelong artists continue to produce art, even if they don’t share it in a public forum. I have followed the same path.

I have imagined my artistic journey as a path into an unknown forest. It is obscured, because I cannot perceive what step to take next. That next step is revealed as I work on my art. It frequently happened spontaneously and seemed to be the result of just working with my art.

My art is now at a place where the major revelations and changes in style are less dramatic. They have evolved slowly. I often have to look back over past work to see a substantive change. That is okay with me. I am not going anywhere.

Art is not a race nor is there a finish line. It is about spending time in a creative space to explore something new. There is no haste to my work, since spending time creating art allows for its own abundance. My time creating becomes a place of refuge, a sanctuary, where the outcome of creating something is just that…an outcome. My work lets me explore previously unexplored terrains of meaning. It allows me to share something “out there” with you.

So this is another beginning for my online presence. It is a chance to share something with you. I look forward to new relationships with those just discovering my art as well as continuing my relationship with others who have known me before.

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