ART QUOTE:
" I would say that one approaches one's own work with yet happier spirit, with calmer passion, when one sees that other possibilities (which are endless) are correctly (or more or less correctly) exploited in art. As regards me personally, I love every form which necessarily derives from the spirit, which is created from the spirit." -Kandinsky

I'm done with my college level art classes. All of the credits I needed for my degree are finished (except for that one last half credit I'm working on now). So now that I don't have any art assignments to work on for school, I've found a greater need to figure out my own way in sculpture. It would be really easy to just come home after work and spend the rest of my night hanging out and watching movies. But I am finding that the more time I spend developing my skills something remarkable happens...I get a little better. Not always. There are plenty of times when I've been out in my little studio for a few hours and look at what I've created, and think "what was I thinking?! I'm not an artist, I'm a hack..Maybe I should just be a hot dog vendor instead."

At times when I've gotten discouraged like this, I might step back for a moment, take a breath and count to ten. But I have got to get back to the work I am doing and just push through the mediocrity. And then things start working out a little better soon after. Perseverance really is a great teacher.

So...Kandinsky talked about creating art from the spirit. The past few weeks, as I've been trying to figure out where to go with my sculpting I decided to do what feels free and natural for me... I started carving a coconut. Kind of a unique medium I know, but for some reason It's a lot of fun for me to do. I first started carving coconuts with a dremel tool in high school and have continued on with it on and off since then. This one here is my most recent creation. It's abstract and its nonrepresentational, but the designs really did seem to flow from my "spirit" through my hand and onto my little hard round canvas. ENJOY!  

I've also been spending a lot of time on a throwing wheel making pots. I decided to dry some completely and carve on them too.