I’m trying not to hate my work, even though I always hate it at this point. I have too many pieces abandoned at this stage. I am holding on and keeping faith. Maybe someone else will see what I see.
I’ve decided to strip off the insignia and make this portrait more anonymous than the others. Soldiers always look alike to me in their helmets and sunglasses. I want to hold on to the giddy hope than any one of them could be the one I love and long for.
May 16, 2010
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3 responses to “Judgement”
Eileen
May 16th, 2010 at 11:31
i think art goes through these different stages, kind of like kids, there’s the cute baby stage, the adorable toddler stage, then years of this sort of awkward, ugly stage, and then if you stay with it its all grown up and either it has matured into a lovely thing or it is butt-ugly and always will be. But maybe that’s just me and my work, can’t speak for others. (oh, and unlike some of my art, my real kids grew up to be lovely people just in case anyone is wondering).
Eileen
May 16th, 2010 at 11:33
btw, I like your idea for this one. The anonymity of soldiers and policemen is also what makes them seem like pieces of a whole, formidable force.
schinders
May 16th, 2010 at 17:20
i think you’re an embroidery bad ass. you come through in your work and it’s beautiful.