Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Meditation

I know my last post was on what art is, but I must add an addendum. Today, after hours of doing tiny lines, I realized that doing them is meditative. I end up in a sort of trance after awhile, and feel totally brain dead. Then this passes and I feel relaxed and ready to go at it again. Tiny, tiny lines -- thousands of them. Each piece of the portrait is life-size (30" by 22"). In other words, each piece is BIG. Thousands and thousands of little tiny lines.......