Fun-A-Day Week 2a

So, here's the next 3 4x4 Pieces of Me:

My tattoo, which is called "she emanates"; a thing I do to wake up my head (and its contents); and one of my shadowy subpersonalities.

I find I am combing through iconic images from past sketchbooks to find Things I Live By or things that are a part of me. Apropos of the Symbolic Modeling work I've been doing lately, I'm finding that the images that stick with me do so because they are part of the inner metaphorical landscape I use to orient me to my life. As I go through this Fun-A-Day project, I realize how the innocent doodles and follwing-my-nose art that I've done is an expression of what's going on in that inner landscape. This may occur as a big No Duh to most artists, but I haven't had a very intimate relationship to my creativity for awhile, so I am just catching on to How Art Works.

Anyway, some very pleasant a-ha's occuring to me as a result of this project. I'd share some here, but I suspect they have the snoozefest quality of excitedly sharing long rambling only-personally-significant dreams, and so you shall be spared. (I attempted to scribble something here about the relationship between windy days and a metaphorical heavy cast-iron rolling caddy for storing the extra metal cord that inhabits my spine, but I see your eyes are already glazing, so I scratched it.)