[Woodcarver] new projects

Fri Jan 28 00:34:50 EST 2005

You two have really inspired me ‹ I have a couple things in mind that I want
to try with my woodburning, but haven¹t found the patterns I want to use.
Now I have the confidence to try them.  I¹ll let you all know the results.
I don¹t have a web site and since I can¹t put them on here I guess I¹ll just
have to tell you about them.  Keep me in mind with a thumbs up.  Sylda

On 1/27/05 6:41 PM, "maricha" <maricha at ozemail.com.au> wrote:

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> 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 
> 
>> 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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