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A metaphor for life. Balance is the key. As excited as I am about making art, it is the balance of that with the rest of my life that makes it complete. I find that when I get too intense, too serious, toooooo focused, my art suffers. I second guess myself, I am hard on myself. When I let other things in---time for friends, watching a silly "keyboard cat" on youtube, reading great books, suddenly my art comes into focus and makes perfect sense. I relax into it, enjoy the process and become peaceful about the journey. Life, like art, is rarely if ever "perfect" in the sense that we define it---yet it is perfect with all of its twists and turns---the very reason we prefer real roses to silk ones, even though the real may not be as big, may have a brown spot on the leaf, may have a torn petal---it is real, it has scent, it is velvety soft, it has thorns that can make you bleed---and that is how you know you are alive! So this weekend, I had two dozen roses that seemed to be fading too quickly, but I also have a beautiful daughter that lives 2500 miles away (but only minutes by phone!) and a loving mother that I was honored to spend the day with. So I balanced my time by painting one of the roses and spending time with two other "roses".
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