The Work of Art

Sat, 2010-03-13 10:13 — Kiko Denzer

Make art of all you do -- but DON'T BE AN ARTIST!Which way to The Way of Design? What does The Golden Mean mean? These are personal stories about art, which is just what humans do. Each of us fits our unique and individual selves into a whole life and landscape, into our communities, into our common stories. The doing of it — from washing the dishes to hoeing the beans to painting, drawing, or sculpting — it all requires art. Success comes not as money, fame, or status, but as the continued life of all those beauties we barely know and understand even less: the miracles of sun, moon, and earth; night and day; stars and seasons, birth, food, and sex; cells, growth, and death; and the utterly unique blue and greenness of our small planet. Such beauty comes of participation, and sharing. Follow the arrows at the end of each essay to go to the next or previous essay in the series.— Kiko Denzer. More work at: handprintpress, kiko's page, chelseagreen, and another blog

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Wed, 2010-03-17 08:16 — Anonymous

Art, Teaching, Living

KikoI love this about making art. I'm at a point where the shapes, colors, images are growing and swirling in my mind ....and I'm still teaching. I had lived really poooooor in a first marriage (for most of my life--25 years) and feel that I can't face not having a steady income....so I keep teaching, even though I feel myself fading, fading out of my passion for helping kids, even my youth-in-custody kids. [I give A's to everybody who finishes projects, though, not just for "good" results]. I know it's the nature of artmaking to stopandstart, but I feel blocked rather than helped by having to STOP all the time to tend to "business." SO..your words speak to me. Thank you.Cathy Wilson