Since completing the Galaxy Lover Series and posting the video over a month ago, I have planted the garden, rebuilt two sweat lodges, and completed a simple gift series of small bowls, a warm-up to some more experiments with porcelain and fine silver, which I intend to enter into a juried show, deadline next week.
Last week I loaded the kiln, plugged it in and turned it on. Nothing happened. This evening I finally realized the undecipherable error code is tC, meaning I may need to install a new thermocouple. I can do that. I may even have one in a drawer. Still, the past month has been fits and starts, that neutral zone between passionate engagement with work and the next "zone".
Then I read today's Fine Art Views from Clint Watson. Regular contributor, painter Lori Woodward Simons, remarked on her 20 hour a week challenge. She challenged herself to spend 20 hours per week on focus work in her studio, and twittered about it. Soon a movement had begun, and I am hitching my wagon to that train. What ever it takes to get me into the zone. The only thing that works is work.
I'll keep you posted.
