Tomorrow evening is the reception for the Anoka Ramsey Community College Photo Alumni show. I have four pieces in the show. Two are pieces I have shown before. Two are pieces I worked my butt off to finish in time to be displayed. All four mean a lot to me and have many bits of my memories and my heart in them. I know it sounds sappy, but it is true. This is why I make art. The reality is that I don’t sell much of it, and instead use my skills to do other work for people to make enough money to buy the supplies I need to make more art. I make it because I have to. There is something inside that calls on me to create and keep creating. When I think I have flushed out one idea completely and can’t make anything more around it, a new idea comes and I keep going, making new things. It is a circular process. A long process. A process that takes so much of my energy, my brain space, and my time. And I love being a part of it!
