I've been inspired by a lot lately.
Last night I sat on the living room floor and turned an aged piece of woodland decor into a fresh piece of artwork. I bought the wooden frame with a picture of ducks on a pond from Goodwill for just $4.00. Last night I sprayed the frame silver, and painted over the ducks with robin's egg blue and a little bit of soft details, with the words, "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die...life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
It's a poem by Langston Hughes. I read it in high school, and we created artwork based on it that displayed our dreams. My senior year, as my English teacher was cleaning up her room, she gave me the artwork we had made. It's at my parents' house in my portfolio, but those words stuck with me throughout the years, and I wanted to display them in some way.
All I want to do right now is create. To sew, and paint, and glue things together.
I'm so excited to spend a few days alone in the house next week. :)
We'll pretend, just for a minute or two, that I'm not jealous of 1. your artsy side and 2. the fact that I need to be condensing a semester's worth of notes into study-able material while you get a 60+degree evening to paint and play after work.
ReplyDelete*sigh*. 1 semester almost done, 5 to go. Maybe after next summer I'll have money again so I can visit you and Miss Bennet. Don't go far!!! (Unless you come home. Or move to another spiffy city) :)