Melting Stuff
Overview
Holistic thoughts
116 years
It turns out that not devoting time in the past to my various creative activities has had an effect on more than just a decrease in made works. It turns out that some movements and muscles involved with lampworking and moving the larger sheets of glass have gotten lazy, as have some of the more creative thoughts that used to come in abundance. How to fix this? I’m taking a holistic approach, and working on both physical and mental approaches – which means dredging up the Tai Chi DVDs, and actually using them…and perhaps some of the yogalates on the ball exercises.
Let the melting begin…
1I’ve taken the big plunge and quit the day job, and am now devoting my time to glass and metal. I’ve been dabbling in various glass and metal activities for a while, and have a glass art business that’s been mostly dormant for over five years. With a lot of encouragement and support from my wife, I’m now able to focus on art exclusively, at least for the summer of 2010.
Tackling this is no trivial project – I have a lot of organization and communication tasks to handle, along with the joy of actually designing and creating the glass and metal pieces. More on this in future posts.
To establish the timeline, my last day of work in the corporate world was 14 July, 2010 (and best wishes to all who continue to move things forward there) and the next week plus was spent resetting and relaxing at Ocean Shores and Decatur Island with some wonderful friends, and competing in a charity tennis tournament. The alpha versions of the website and blog are in place, and I’m beginning the shop cleanup and organization. I did pick up a few rocks to toss into the tumbler while vacationing – the processing of those should finish up in a few weeks.
As soon as I can figure out a good setup for taking good product pictures, I’ll get the website updated with a gallery; for now, there are a couple of examples at: http://4SArtGlassDesign.com