Making Those Things I Have Imagined in My Mind

Last weekend was an extremely productive weekend.  I have decades of "stuff" that I have collected that I end up cataloging in my mind.  On those nights that I lie in bed unable to sleep or in the hours I spend commuting to work each day, I sometimes think about my art and what I will make with all my "stuff".  In my head I juxtapose that object with this object and imagine how I can pull it all together and resolve 'hiding' all the electronic bits that I don't necessarily want people to see/focus on. Or maybe I do... ? Sometimes in my head I get stuck on how to connect this with that or how I'm going to make everything work from a logistical perspective due to the weight of the whole piece or because of the dimensions of one or many of the objects that I'm working with. In my head I'm experimenting with assembly - imagining how an idea might work with wire, or screws, or bolts, or nails or glue or whatever method I can think of.

Last weekend, two of the many sculptures I had created in my mind, began their lives in the 'real' world in my studio. I was able to get to the point with each of them where I needed to step away and spend more time thinking. Sometimes when I start to execute something I had imagined in my head, it evolves because I notice something in the studio that you could never imagine without touching the things themselves.

I also needed to order some additional parts... those will be here Thursday.

Needless to say, I'm really looking forward to this weekend. :)