It’s a grey, mist-enshrouded Monday. ‘A weather event’ has ascended on the region overnight, heavy rainfall swelling rivers and causing havoc on the land and commuters. I’m tucked up in my nest among the hills, exorcising a chest infection, huffing inhalations of hot eucalyptus-infused steam, downing panadol, and other sinus solutions.
Whilst I haven’t been able to physically be in my workshop as I had planned over these last few days, I’m engaging with ‘hot points’ in my mind, to envision an outcome for it, trying to roughly sketch out these ideas that have been emerging as I have been exploring materials in my workshop this past month or so. A new deadline has also prompted the stoking of fires from under me!
I had thought I was ‘done’ with a line of inquiry I had been exploring, and felt renewed by a fresher idea that came promptly following behind, though in my recent experiments, I touched on something old and true, that resonated in me and has brought me to a place of wanting to find a way to combine the two.
I am not surprised by this really, this duality always seems to pop up, I’m still working with the same materials (wood/sticks) but I had thought it was in a different way, or more of a different intention or driving force…mood? There’s still a story to be told, more to say about the light in the dark, the duality of things… I’m reminded of how symbolic mirrors can be, their presence, and the idea of them in art to convey many meanings. And so I keep sketching, moving materials in my mind. For now.
“One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light. It is necessary, while in darkness, to know that there is a light somewhere, to know that in oneself, waiting to be found, there is a light.”
― Nothing Personal
