In My World6

07/15/18
7x6 art journal 

Three Dancers

03/24/18
11x15 mixed media on paper

Lifebook03 The Person I Know Best with Misty Mawn

01/21/17
11x15 acrylic paint and pencil sketch on paper

Balancing Priorities

9/12/14
11x15 collage on paper

Balancing Priorities

Thinking today at women in workplace leadership roles. Crazy and OCD?  Or perhaps wise and a little misunderstood by others around them?     

Color Advice

1/10/14
11x15 collage on paper, miniature pearls

Color Advice

Today's collage is inspired by a hand-written note I found in a box of my Grandmother's effects, that talks about "Colors for Mature Women".  I never knew her to be one that pondered such things, but finding this note gave me new insight into the complexities of grandmothers--- regardless of who our childhood memories told us they were.  

"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing." -Camille Pissarro

Day 117 Happy hour

117:365

01/25/13

Day 117 Happy hour 

Louise Hay affirmation:   “I see the resistance patterns within me only as something else to release.  They have no power over me.  I am the Power in my world.”

 

Inspiration exercise from 365 Daily Creativity Journal:   Go out of your way.  Travel somewhere you wouldn’t normally go today specifically to create something inspired by that location.

Media:  Magazine photos, Postcard, Vellum, Matte medium, Glue stick

Time:  55M

Comments:  My out of the way detour today was to go to happy hour with some commercial designer friends after work.  Conversation centered around work projects and coworker personalities.  Always enjoyable, and a fun time to get together with other designers.   

Amazing to hear how gender in the workplace can still be an issue regardless of where we work... even after all the years since women entered the workforce in the US.  For me, resistance patterns that turn learning, sharing, networking and encouraging one another into gossip or grousing about work or the state of the world were in my conscious awareness as we talked.  It's too easy to slide to a negative and cynical place at times. "They have no power over me!"  

On the drive home from Dallas, I thought about how each of us has been working in the field long enough to lead our own design consultancies, but still choose to work in corporate or design firm environments.  Old resistances around fear of the unknown in starting a design venture on my own, without the safety net of a steady paycheck, came up again.