Putting It Out There

I found that I had to re-write my artist statement (about my work) because I didn't figure out how to cut and paste it out of Word, and in so doing, I allowed myself to be just a little more honest about what I've been doing all these years. I never really talked about what the symbols that I use represent, prefering to let people reflect/attach their own meaning to them. Or, at least, that's what I always told myself, so that I didn't have to own it. I always did talk about them openly to a select few; leaving the sugar-coated version for the masses. Yet, now I feel that I've done myself a disservice all these years and I don't care to continue doing that. I doesn't really matter what people think about what drives my work, it only matters what I think. People are either going to have a response to it or not, I have no control over the work after I finish it and put it out there for all the world to see. What I have discovered in this process of getting the blog started is that I miss a lot of the elements that I started using in my early work. I know it's natural to let the work evolve and to travel down various tributaries, but I find myself longing for more of that connection I had to Origin, the spark, where it all began.