"The idea for this sculpture originated years ago. Like many of my images, they simmered for a time before coming to the surface and wanting to be made. I came across Julia Cameron's book The Artist Way, an international bestseller about rediscovering your creative fire. The book is not written just for artists, but for anyone who wants to live more truly."
"One of the basic tools in the book is called 'The Morning Pages'. The exercise involves starting to write every morning, when you have just woken up and gotten out of bed. You write for three pages about anything that comes to mind. All your fears, your uncensored thoughts and anything that lives in your subconscious can flow right out of your pen. It is letting go of everything accumulated or unseen; it is putting yourself where shame lives. It is mining your own personal shadow realm. This ensures that nothing stands between you and your creativity. Thus, every morning when you wake up, there is a new beginning."
"Hope" is the thing with feathers
"Hope" is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -
I've heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.
Emily Dickinson