[Woodcarver] new projects

[Linehan718 at aol.com]

Hi Maricha,   My two carving words this year are passion and wonder.  having 
been artistic all my life in different ways, but never having brought much to 
fruition,  I am glad to finally have found my passion.  Nothing has ever held 
my interest for long.  entering my 3rd year of carving and still being quite 
motivated is a wonderful thing.  Wonder is what has spurred me on.  to see the 
looks on the faces of people when i show them my newest creation, to drink in 
their comments as if i can't get enough till I am drunk, is the only 
motivation i have needed thus far.  Had i gone with my inate abilities when younger, 
who knows where I might have been today, instead I listened to those voices of 
reason, who said it was time to stop playing around and get a "real job".  well 
i did.  only thing that came out of it was the ability to pay my bills on 
time.  In reality thou, I was miserable going off to work each day.  Some might 
say it was just laziness on my part, but i disagree, as i could carve 80 hours 
a week and still not consider it work.  I believe people were not meant to 
punch a clock or to spend their lives furthering someone elses' aims.   I mourn 
the loss of the possibilities that were open to me as a young adult.  Then 
again, had life taken a different path for me, i may never have started carving.  
While right now i am taking on all manners of carving to get my experience, I 
do sense something greater within myself.  Each day builds upon itself, and 
knowledge and experience is being acquired by doing and communicating with other 
artists and carvers.  I know that i am destined to find my niche, however at 
present do not understand what this might be. I also understand that it will 
come in its own time. The things that spur me on in carving is first and 
foremost, a need for self expression,  a love of wood, and a tempermental confidant 
ego(which i never had until a short time ago) and last but not least a thirst 
to get better and better at what i do.  I appeciate the relaxation and 
solitude that carving affords me and the feeling that i am finally being myself.  I 
keep special pieces of wood set aside for things that i know will be greater 
than what i am doing now.  commision work is where I am heading at present, not 
for the money, but for the forced learning opportunities.  eventually I am 
headed into free form carving, where i shall simply allow the wood to use my 
knowledge and hands to shape it.  but who knows what will happen along my carving 
journey.  it is the wonders of the possibilities that lie ahead, which keep me 
striving on a daily basis.

Maura carvin' in nyc
http://www.picturetrail.com/whiteknight718
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