In a writing class, wonderfully creative Manchester playwright and poet Louise Wallwein introduced me to Julia Cameron's "morning pages". At first, I thought morning pages were a good opportunity to list all of the things that I should be doing, while what I was actually doing (i.e., writing my "pages") was keeping from doing what I would rather be doing. I had a hard time committing to morning pages, but through perseverance, I began to understand the benefits.
I met Louise in January of 2014, so I guess I've been writing morning pages for 17 months now. I was not an easy convert, but I am now at the point where I don't feel prepared for my day unless I've written my morning pages. I have also had what I consider to be many creative breakthroughs, with is a purpose of writing morning pages.
From morning pages, I graduated to Cameron's "artist's dates". I LOVE my artist's dates. I take artist's dates with other people (my Mom included); but I don't often tell the other people that we are on an artist's date.
A couple of weeks ago, my "date" took me to Gimli, Manitoba.
After visiting a couple of studios as part of the Interlake Artists' Wave Tour, my date took me to Lifa and the used book store. I wasn't looking for anything specific, but ended up with Diane Fitzgerald's "The Beaded Garden".
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| Fitzgerald's The Beaded Garden |
Standing in that used book store, smelling that fine fragrance of old books, and recalling the deep love of flowers of a good artist friend of mine who passed a few years ago.... the concept for an art bra began to take form. I will continue to let the idea steep.
This design will be dedicated to Lillian.
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