With the beginning of a new year, I hope to continue the resolution I made when I started this blog: to make a piece of artwork about once a week. Lately, I've been spending some more time with photography and discovered that it'd been almost a month since my last drawing. Although I'm enjoying photography, I missed the basic form of creative expression in drawing and the attention it forces me to give to details. Drawing causes me to appreciate the beauty in creation and often I find myself moved by the end result. It is my way of processing scripture and my relationship with Christ. I hope that others enjoy the drawings too, but even if they don't, I know it's important that I keep creating.
"What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don't think happens with any other activity..." --John Berger, author of Ways of Seeing
About this blog:
Years ago, my sister and I went to see the Darjeeling Limited in theater. Afterwards, we were talking about the movie and about our love for creating art. We shared a similar problem: we put our art last to the business of our lives and thus hardly ever made time to create anything. My sister suggested that we make a commitment to create a piece of art every week. She jokingly said "Can we agree to that?" in reference to the line Owen Wilson used repeatedly in the movie.
Although I tried at first to stick to our commitment, I've lapsed into not making time to create. I'm hoping this blog will help me rededicate time to that purpose.
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