#138 - Creative directions

Sometimes I wish creativity came with instructions.

I have so many thoughts, they jumble up inside my brain.  I start many things, go down creative rabbit holes (and sometimes internet ones), and then emerge and recall where I was to begin with, but I'm no longer there.

I'm working on several projects at once.  I do tend towards multitasking, which not many can do.  Yes, I can walk and chew gum at the same time.  But it's the organization of things that sometimes get me.  I really am an Aries - I like to spearhead to move forward, and I'm really good at keeping OTHERS organized, just not usually myself.

Today I want to get back to pumping out more meat in my script.  I have to.  I NEED to.  I know this love letter/sometimes unflattering story about the Vault Goddess needs to be told.

I wish I could find that instruction manual, but it's buried somewhere in all the stuff in the Vaults: hers, his and mine.

I think it's time to write my own instructions so I can map out my emergence from it all.

In the immortal words of my oldest child:  Let's GOOOOO!

#137 - Where we lost #58

Well, another Super Bowl is in the books, and another loss by the 49ers to the Chiefs.  In spectacular fashion, in the last 9 seconds of OT.  Disappointing for a great year by our team. They led most of the game. Ever faithful by the bay, the Bang Bang Niner Gang just didn't pull it off.  The Chiefs did to them what they did to Green Bay, and the Lions.  I guess Karma is a bitch sometimes.

So, it's onward and onward now. Not getting to go visit my mentor at our favorite ice cream place today is a concerning disappointment as well. She is very under the weather, and suffers from lots of the physical ailments that can take a toll as we age.  She is still full of verbal and communicative spunk, and I sure hope she gets better enough soon for an in person visit.

And I continue februllaging away.  Want to set a short time limit on completing each work.  I want to do more with less and eliminate the inner critic so I just let is flow and let it go.  Also, I was so happy to get a mention from the Paris Collage Collective on last week's prompt.  And my final Postal Collaboration Project #13 for the Berkeley Commonplace finally came back to me and after much clean up from the water damage to it, and rearranging, I will be sending it off soon. So that's one upcoming exhibition.  I have some label art going off for another exhibition in Seattle.  So I guess my art is making progress.

Now most importantly - this week I vow to get back to the script and writing.  I really want to complete this thing soon. So I can seriously look at reviewing and rewriting and tightening the script.  My script.  The one that is part of be my legacy.  I am counting on it.

Speaking of legacy, I'm getting pretty tired of the overwhelming presence of the Vault around here, and must keep on working towards organization and elimination. Time for a game plan.  Discipline ebay listings. Sell off some of the excess ephermera, which I need to organize with better access for creation. And clarity.  And the pool table, which my husband misses; I know.  But this really has to be the year I come into my own. I want to get my kicks on my own Route 66, and I only have a few months before this trip around the sun is complete.

It's a new day in this year of the Dragon.  Let's put some fire out there. 

#136 - Creatively speaking

It's funny being on a vacation and waiting for the storms to begin.

So we are visiting family and friends in SoCal this week.  Arrived up the coast to our wonderful niece who was the most amazing hostess where we were escorted into our very own airbnb!  Had a fabulous visit to our favorite GOAT chowder restaurant (and brought some frozen with us down here), followed by a quick thrifting escapade before leaving to head down closer to the big boy's city.  I brought along my watercolors, which I haven't really been using much at all lately. Our lovely hostess here (timeshare corner top floor 2 br. unit with our own Rob and Laura Petrie beds, as well as a large rec room with pool table, 2 hot tubs and a large pool) has some amazing watercolor pencils, so it's been fun to mix it up with my palette of potted watercolors and her pencils.  Mostly drawing the ocean and working on perfecting the palm trees right outside the balcony.

As it's currently FEBRULLAGE, I did my daily collages in advance so I could post daily while we're gone.  I'm picking up more followers and having daily regularly viewed posts close to 50 people at a time, so my reach as an artist is growing.  But the most amazing thing happened yesterday.  One of the collage artists who I follow, as I love the vintage vibe of her work, posted a collage and I recognized a photo of the Vault Goddesses sister, Muriel.  It was from a Time magazine editorial in 1961.  She's wearing a ballet tutu and her husband at the time responded to a cruel letter to the editor written in response to her appearance on The Ernie Kovacs Show.   What a sign to see her in that collage!

There have been massive storm warnings, but down here as well as at home, but waking up this morning you wouldn't know it.  Beautiful sunny day with threatening clouds to the north (LA to Santa Barbara is supposed to get the brunt of this storm), but no rain, which we expected.  I guess later today into and through Tuesday, when we leave, is what is expected,

Since I brought along my portable typewriter (aka my Macbook Air), I'm starting to dive back into my film script.  Truly, I need to make lots of progress.

But the thing is to keep moving, and creatively as well.