I'm finally getting back to this blog and feel I need to start using it regularly! I haven't been too active in the studio. About 5 weeks ago, one of my housemates, Sil, died of a heart attack. He was 78 and had been diagnosed with heart failure earlier in the month, but he was still active and had traveled to visit his kids when it happened. It was unexpected but not shocking. We all miss him a lot as he was a wise and fabulous man. Here's a link to a great video montage of images of Sil taken a few years ago, with him reading a poem he wrote in the background. It's called "Running, Running, Running"
Somehow I THOUGHT I would throw myself into my work and make mourning jewelry as a way to process the grief buttons that this pushed. That hasn't happened and I've had a tough time focusing in the studio. I'm finally feeling the call (and the money pressures) to get my self in gear and get busy again. I've been dabbling in jet and metal minerals, as there's lots of alchemy going on there for me personally.
A little note of serendipity from the universe is also prompting me to jump back into the jet grind. This is my Real Astrology Horoscope by Rob Brezny for this week..."LEO: No one knew there was coal in the United States until 1790. A hunter who was wandering near Pennsylvania's Broad Mountain stumbled upon it accidentally when his campfire lit up an outcropping of pure anthracite. That discovery was both a blessing and a curse; since then, the mining of coal has yielded abundant energy but also environmental degradation. I predict a metaphorically similar event for you in the coming days, Leo. You will inadvertently find a potentially enormous source of valuable fuel that will, like coal, present you with both rich opportunities and knotty dilemmas." So I figure the best metaphorically similar event for me to find my enormous source of valuable fuel is to get busy with the fossil fuel jewels that I'm already working with and find my abundance there! I've been on this lignite black strewn path for several years now. There are several ways I can travel this path and I'll keep ya posted.
Here's some new work in Tennessee jet...The bottom heart, with the rough faces and rounded edges, is not drilled as a bead, but is meant to be a meditation stone to hold in the hand or put on an altar. Thanks for reading and looking!
