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It's been four years, almost to the day, since I updated this journal. In that four years I have traveled throughout North America and South East Asia for my business and personal research, met amazing people, collected beautiful antiquities ranging from 40 year old Asian coin silver pieces to 2000+ year old Maya jadeite ear flares.
I've learned I need to delegate, so I hired employees.
I learned to carve jade and amber, my two favorite materials to lay my hands and eyes on.
I have started carving reproductions of ancient jewelry and I now consider myself to have a pivotal role keeping ancient arts alive.
I have learned that you can't please everyone.
I have learned that it is indeed possible to march to the beat of your own drum, and as long as you are sincere and confident in that, people will follow.
I have learned that things will work themselves out, simply by the nature of.. well.. nature.
I have learned that the world is more beautiful and more terrible than I ever could have imagined, and that contrast itself is beautiful.
I unfortunately no longer create two dimensional art. I have not been inspired to do so in years, I've tried and it pains me but I am no longer physically capable of doing it. What I have been doing for years as business, I consider to be my comfortable art form for the moment - creating wearable pieces of art for people to wear in traditionally elongated ear lobe piercings, stretched lip piercings and other assorted scultural do-dads made from natural materials (wood, horn, bone, amber, jade and other stones). This comforts me, is exciting to no end because I adore these materials, and has a well enough reception among people in and out of my body art circles that it satisfies my creative social needs.
I am content.
I've learned I need to delegate, so I hired employees.
I learned to carve jade and amber, my two favorite materials to lay my hands and eyes on.
I have started carving reproductions of ancient jewelry and I now consider myself to have a pivotal role keeping ancient arts alive.
I have learned that you can't please everyone.
I have learned that it is indeed possible to march to the beat of your own drum, and as long as you are sincere and confident in that, people will follow.
I have learned that things will work themselves out, simply by the nature of.. well.. nature.
I have learned that the world is more beautiful and more terrible than I ever could have imagined, and that contrast itself is beautiful.
I unfortunately no longer create two dimensional art. I have not been inspired to do so in years, I've tried and it pains me but I am no longer physically capable of doing it. What I have been doing for years as business, I consider to be my comfortable art form for the moment - creating wearable pieces of art for people to wear in traditionally elongated ear lobe piercings, stretched lip piercings and other assorted scultural do-dads made from natural materials (wood, horn, bone, amber, jade and other stones). This comforts me, is exciting to no end because I adore these materials, and has a well enough reception among people in and out of my body art circles that it satisfies my creative social needs.
I am content.
Bees aint got nothin on me.
Been hella busy lately. Interviewed by Slow Education for their upcoming issue, interviewed by Phirebrush for their most recent issue (already published), have an interview with a body art magazine later this month for their April issue.
Been very busy running Onetribe and making jewelry. Lots of new designs, and been trying to beef up the stock. Also have a new business idea in the works that goes hand in hand with the organic jewelry theme.
Oh, and we should be certified Fair Trade soon.
Grande Vanilla Soy No Water Chai
I'm sitting in Starbucks on the WiFi network making use of the loverly iBook that Onetribe (my jewelry company) purchased so that I may work on the road/at sbux/anywhere I damn please. I haven't been pushing out much art lately.. I think I'm burned out. I need to refresh. After these web projects are done I can relax for a while.. especially since we just bought kayaks. I'm going to be outside in the sun and active a lot this summer and it really helps spark my creativity. I also plan on taking some walks through the ghetto around where we live - it's just been to cold as of late.
Thanks to everyone that has sent me a message, commented, or
When The Silence Embraced You
I just got word that the small media company I frequently do work for just got an awesome contract.. However, when the project manager calls and said "We got it.. welcome to the rest of your life." I start to question exactly how fun this might be to do. 60-80hrs of front end design in a month and a half or so, somewhere around one full time job, one full time body jewelry company that I sort of have to run, and sleep.
Anywho, hopefully I'll get some pieces done tonight. I like the last two a lot, but I don't have a laminator to use for a printmaking press here, unfortunately. I could drive over the paper with my car.. hm.
Smelling Like A Rose That Somebody Gave Me
It's really frustrating that my apartment, as cool as it is, is too small for me to do any mixed media work. I'm going to go insane soon if I don't find a space to work, because digital photographs are lame. I'm tired of them already. Again.
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