finally finished my dream piece

You might remember that I have been working on and off on making a ceramic piece that I had in a dream long ago, well I finally finished it!! There was a point where I almost threw it in the garbage. I had received the two ceramic pieces back  (they looked like a hot water bottle that had been cut in half) and I hated the glaze, really I did, I even gasped when I saw it, nothing like an ugly ceramic hot water bottle split in two.  Then I said to myself "Katy you still need to finish it!" if you have read any of my other posts you know I have to see things through to the end. So, I went to the store and purchased some ceramic paint and painted and painted.  Then my mom entered the picture, she really saved this project, she sent me some feathers (I was having a hard time finding any here).  She knew just what I wanted. I never went into detail with her, and then there they were sent through the mail, the feathers from my dream and ones that I couldn't have even dreamt about, they were so beautiful. This dream piece does not make sense(a lot like my dreams really) It is a vase that simply holds feathers and a single rose.....it is laced together.....it is uneven.....it is strange.....it is something I would have never made if it had not been in one my dreams.  Doing this experiment has really made me listen to myself, lower the critical voice and turn-up the encouraging one instead. For myself and others. I have this tendency to see someone else's art, for instance a piece in a modern art museum and judge it immediately, I don't get it and I do not get the point of it. Making this piece makes me want to step back from being that person, I don't want to be so quick to judge, I don't have to always get it that isn't really the point of creating something......at least it isn't the point for me anymore.

I just needed to add that I realized that this project was a collaborative effort, the people who encouraged me to finish it, my mom, The people who collected the feathers, then dyed them, the rose, whomever it was who made the rose, the color of the paint for the vase, who came up with that color? The ribbons and their colors, my ceramic teacher for firing the pieces, my camera, the people responsible for designing my special little camera.....making something does involve other's creativity and ideas that is the other gift I received by seeing this crazy project through, stepping away from myself and seeing the bigger picture, others, some I will never know and ones that I do, and truly appreciating them all.

Comments

[sperlygirl]

it is wonderfully dreamy! love the colors :)

[kt]

Thanks Suz, I think the best part of this project was taking the photos at the end and trying to make them seem dreamy. kt