Such craftsmen often must have worked by rote the motif became abstracted through process rather than vision. I feel the need to go another step by questioning my innate attraction for repetition. I strive for a balance between the feeling of momentum that comes with working in a repetitive series and the inertia of assessment determining whether one s conceptual ideas have been achieved. Somewhere in the revolving process of momentum and assessment, there is an aesthetic tension between the uncontrolled and the controlled. Finding balance is a delicate process and one that is not motionless, given that the elements are always shifting.
Creativity requires change.
Yet in the other realms of one s life, change is all around us and it often seems undesirable. I encounter people constantly struggling with changes in their landscape, perhaps new houses springing up everywhere or growing treees and hedgerows altering views. In art it is crystal clear that evolution is essential for success. I am no longer reacting to the essence of the expression of an idea, but conforming to what is reproducible. I have lost the life force that I am trying to render.