Keeping it real

Zen Puddle - chosen for the 2012 publication
Open to Interpretation: Water's Edge

I don't know about you, but this year has gone by WAY too fast.  Yesterday I had to stop and think if my show at Mysteria gallery was THIS year or last year?  It was this year...but it seems so far away now.  I learned a lot from doing a solo show and had some hard bumps and some big highs.

There are moments of doubt along the way, everyone has them, but we don't talk about them much on Facebook and Twitter. This year has been a year of reflecting and questioning why I do this, who I am doing it for, and could I live without doing this...?  It's the end of the year, a time to do the books,  and I decided to make my last blog post about keeping it real.  
So this is me doing that.  

Thank you 

thank you 

thank you

to everyone who supports me in the possibility

to everyone who helps me in the realizing

to everyone who shows up (physically and virtually)
                             to celebrate successes
                             and to get me through the failures

to you brilliant collectors - thank you for allowing me to continue

AND

thank you to the  

commenters

clickers

likers 

and

sharers!

There are moments of big doubt, moments when I wonder if I have the courage and the energy to continue never knowing where it is all going and absolutely knowing the places that it isn't going. But then there are the other moments when you get a phone call out of nowhere from a collector who can't forget your work and it has spoke to them and stayed with them and the "unknowing" takes me to a place of real humility and gratitude.  

It is easy to forget why I started.  It certainly wasn't for fame, fortune or Facebook fans!   It was because I couldn't imagine NOT making images.  The fact that some of you out there like them, choose to live with them, and connect with them is just my very good fortune.  So thank you.

OH! and thank you to the 10 people who read this blog! ; )
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