No Comparison While Making Art
Wednesday, January 15, 1997
Reading the success stories of people like Bill Gates or a child prodigy who makes millions selling their paintings, I wonder what is wrong with me. I feel a tremendous sense of underachievement.
However, I don’t feel this way when I create; it absorbs my all.
However, I don’t feel this way when I create; it absorbs my all.
Finally, To Work!
Thursday, February 08, 1996
I did it! Finally tonight, with everything put in place yesterday, I worked for over an hour on Maloney's sheep horn carving. It felt so natural, so simple, so unspectacular - one wonders why go through such tremendous feats of avoidance to not do that which is so easy to do. I suppose, like anything, the battle is in the mind. I feel a little as though I've been away for a long time and now I've returned - I've recovered.
Memories of My First Jackknife
Monday, January 22, 1996
Carving is my own. I was drawn to it at an early age and reinforced positively when Dad bought Kent and I jackknives (Jason was too young). Did Mom fret that we might hurt ourselves? How I wanted to carve a ship - to create a small world of my own from a piece of wood.
Jason, Shane and Kent Wilson, carving near Baddeck, NS Canada (circa late 1960s)
Jason, Shane and Kent Wilson, carving near Baddeck, NS Canada (circa late 1960s)
Ideas for Work
Sunday, January 07, 1996
Carve details into moose antler base and sides in all pieces, which serves to unify theme (intricate and abstract). Possibly also a good way to do caribou antlers: in abstract curves, threads, cubes, etc.
