The Journey
My Glass Beginning This Won't Take Long ~ lol
I've read a lot of artists bio's and statements and there are some wonderfully told journey's out there... mine is pretty simple. As a child my entertainment ~besides tv~ were things creative. I was no artistic prodigy but I played with a lot of mediums; crochet, needle point, painting (I mention humbly) but when I started living in the adult world and worked there was rarely money for craft supplies. Sometimes I'd get a very strong urge to create so I'd pull out some old pastels I and I'd doodle but that was about it. Fast-Forward a whole bunch of years later... I buy my first home and after a few years I begin building a fence to enclose my considerable back yard area for privacy and so my kitties could have a safe haven (I live next to a park and there are often dogs playing there who are very happy to find kitty chasing entertainment close by). I find the fence building extremely satisfying and though I've been on an internal journey to find a new way to make a living that I can be passionate about I have no idea what that could be. But my attention has been drawn to how much I've enjoyed building my fence ~ there is a creative awakening happening inside me ~ and there's this wind chime on my back door that my dear friend Beth gave me and it chimes each time I go in and out of my house to work on my fence.
Then one day I started thinking about how easy it would be to make that wind chime myself... and to condense an approximate two year journey from thinking I could make wind chimes and stained glass items to sell in our very strong Alaskan tourist market to discovering glass fusing and finally glass bead making here I am building a lampwork studio out of my garage apartment that I have rented since buying my home. I am so very excited about this studio!! The sense of community I hope it inspires among lampworkers in my area and the fantastic opportunities I will have to meet and interact with these artists and the people of my community; or to be the person who shows a "newbie" the path to this wonderful obsession with glass are just a few of the things I am happily anticipating. Not to mention the opportunity to bring the teachers to me and to study with them along with everyone else! This Journey has just begun and I can not recall a time in my life so full of joy and promise! I hope to see you here sometime soon to join in the fun!! With Love, Deborah xoxo :-) |
