Flash in Minneapolis is doing 25 things including…

Always indulge my creative obsessions

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Flash has written 6 entries about this goal

Still more envelopes 1 year ago

Set number two, for a different friend

Jan 06, 2007, 01:48PM PST | 6 cheers | 6 comments


Not done thinking about envelopes yet 1 year ago

Here is the first set of 31. Wait, it looks like there are 33 there. I guess I can eliminate my 2 least favorites.

These are about the size of those mini sticky notes.

Jan 06, 2007, 09:37AM PST | 6 cheers | 5 comments


Honor the obsession, big or small 1 year ago

Seeing this goal is a good reminder for me this week. Because my obsession is small, and has felt a little silly to me. Like I must be wierd to be obsessed with something so small. If I was obsessed with painting the Sistine Chapel that would be one thing—but this?

Last Friday I got myself an envelope template, and I have been obsessed with cutting up old magazines and making recycled envelopes. I feel driven, compelled. Every piece of paper looks like an envelope to me. Every page of every magazine. I can’t wait to start cutting and folding. I have completed about 30 envelopes in the last few days, and I have at least that many in various stages of completion laying around the house. I’m not sure what I will do with them when I’m done. (Maybe send letters to 43t pals?)

So I guess I am indulging the obsession, in keeping with this goal. Now I will start doing it with pride!

Jan 01, 2007, 01:45PM PST | 10 cheers | 13 comments


Someone else had the same idea! 2 years ago

I just got an email that there is going to be an ice maze at the Winter Carnival this year! I signed up to volunteer. Maybe I can help build it.

Oct 24, 2006, 12:00PM PDT | 2 cheers | 1 comment


I am looking into becoming in intern for the St. Paul winter carnival 3 years ago

And helping build the ice palace. I could learn alot about ice construction!

Nov 20, 2005, 05:59AM PST | 5 cheers | 6 comments


Lemme tell 'ya, it was big, the one that got away... 3 years ago

As an artist, I am all over the map. I don’t have any one medium in which I have honed my skills or developed a regular habit of daily practice.

My art is just about responding to the ideas that sink their teeth in and won’t let go. Sometimes I astound myself with my persistence, my drive, my tenacity, my problem-solving, my willingness to invest vast amounts of time and money, to learn new skills, to enlist the help of friends, family and innocent bystanders.

And then there are all the heartbreaking ones that get away. Well, it would be heartbreaking if their passing were even noticed. Instead I am often left with a vague sense of something I forgot, but I’m too busy rushing around to remember what it was. Something that could have been beautiful and wonder-inspiring, gone… p o o f .

I few weeks ago I was all lit up with the idea of making a giant ice maze on top of a frozen Minnesota lake this winter. Like a hedge maze for people to walk through, only made of ice. I realized today that I haven’t given that idea a second thought in weeks. (But wait, I think I just felt the tiniest nibble—that one didn’t get away yet!)

The difference between the huge amazing projects that actually happen and the ones that don’t is just the amount of attention I give them. The types of things I do (performance, installation art, artcar, etc.) aren’t things I can do every day. But maybe if I made a point just to get into that state of mind every day, maybe sitting down with a sketchbook or something, I could keep my creative energy flowing and have fewer “ones that got away.”

Oct 26, 2005, 08:26PM PDT | 20 cheers | 22 comments


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