Returning to the sculpting journey
Another day, a Sunday, in May
“Cedar and Granite Piece”
and “Volcanic, Outstretched Arm Piece”
From “Granite” to “Confirmation”
(Note: This would be my initial contact notes with what would become “Granite Piece”, by name, and then would transform by name into “Confirmation”. As indicated by my notes it would be about six months after initial sighting this driftwood piece before this piece was off the beach and home to the studio. The six months was a time of attempting to justify to myself the time and the effort of getting of the piece off the beach. this was particularly large and and weighed about a ton. For the reasoning mind bringing the wood piece home was definitely not a practical, not a reasonable thing to be doing. I should be doing more practical, sensible activities such as improving my financial situation or maybe making my unfinished home more weatherproof. On the other hand having made a decision and a commitment to “explore the intuitive” and having experienced so many events that fit into the realm of “expressions of coincidence” I was prepared to continue exploration.
I had previously completed several other sculpture pieces, “Paddles”, “Transformation” and “Body Parts” being major components of the group to date.
I had just walked a couple of kilometers along a driftwood strewn beach. I was practicing a process of listening for resonance within myself. I would listen as well as visually scan the wood pieces for a particular piece that particularly attracted my attention. There were thousands upon thousands of wood pieces to choose from yet I was determined I did not want just any piece. I was feeling for some special sort of resonance.
I would come to understand much later that the resonance I was listening for would be what I would later refer to as intuitive expression in response to both my intention and to my commitment to explore the intuitive.