[Woodcarver] new projects

[maricha]

hi maura,
sorry i was unable to respond to your wonderful email sooner. just love it. wow passion and wonder.  we all carry a special gift within us from our conception yet, in our life's journey we seem to be captured by so much around us that we leave ourselves in a kinda of dormant state, which only seems to wake up after we have had a few aches and pains. to have found your passion and wonder is the beginning of appreciating the wonder of life and what we are going to do about it .  to motivate someone is extremely hard, so when you reach the stage where you are motivated i find outstanding, because it follows with growth and wonder at what you allow yourself to achieve. by your actions you are rewarded soooooo much by the reactions of others for your work and generosity in giving of yourself. which is what i call ....artisan.... in spanish when broken up into  arte - sano gives you the answer arte is art, sano is health.  when the war was on and i was only a 6/7 year old brat, we had to climb a wall about 2 and half meters up as the incendiary bombs were on top of us, so my father and i had to climb this wall. i knew i could not climb it as i was terrified and my father said ...do not let fear make a slave of you... you can do it together with me... so he calmly said to use his knee and body as a staircase to climb over. up to this day i do not know how we both did it, but we did jumb the wall and found safety.  it is engraved in my mind that nothing is impossible, do not be afraid to try and you will find things come together as you grow. lateral thinking is within us all,  so as an artisan ... or arte sano we grow with passion in our love of art and our health is grows and we share these treasurers.  

Maura you are on your way, the biggest battle are sometimes the ones that you have with yourself. give yourself a wonderful pat, give your self rewards by enjoying your bit of space, when you do this you will feel recharged and you are able to cope with your commitments and hold the fort for those around you.  

i too lost a lot of chances in my youth, a scholarship in art which would have changed my life completely could not be achieved because bread and food was essential.  for an artist the work we do with our bits of wood is like breathing in and out, it is our life,
so be as  passionate and wonder as much as possible, and someone up there in heaven will smile and hug you, cause love is what makes the world go round.

thank you for your wonderful email.

cheers
maricha
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  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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