Following on from last week's post, and the change that is coming, I've been forced (again) to acknowledge that I'm not a patient person! So much in this process is beyond our control, so for now at least I can't take refuge in the plotting and planning that I'm really pretty good at. What I'm NOT good at is waiting for other people to get organised and make something happen. This page arose out of trying to manage my impatience ...
I painted the blue background and wiped some of it off with a baby wipe, which gives interesting texture, and then started laying down grey collage pieces.
I just kept adding a bit more, including a lady with a slightly frustrated look on her face (my own face was probably MUCH worse).
Black outlines and grey shadows as ever make all the difference to how the page elements string together, not to mention getting the words out of my brain and onto the page ... helping me to feel lighter.
And here's the finished product - not too much doodly detail for once - but it says what I needed to get off my chest. Basically it was/still is "grant me patience, Lord, but hurry!".
Hopefully I will manage not to chew my knuckles off while other people decide where we will be relocating to, and what kind of house we'll be living in. Then yet more patience will be required while disabled adapations take place. We might get there by Christmas, but then again ....
Rosie
3 comments:
And yet you use calm blues to colour your page...but you have my sympathy. I'm not very patient either and especially not with God. Good job our amazing creator IS patient and knows what he/she is doing!
Another wonderful page. Just realised I never mentioned your amazing art in my previous comments. Forgive me - I am always blown away by what you create, so for me it's a given that I'll love it ;-) You are incredibly creative. God's good.
Cath x
Oh my goodness, a move? I had in my head that you had retired not so long ago (though it's probably longer than I imagine!) and had moved then? How wonderful that you have the energy for the new, even though it might manifest as frustration :).
When your long term sick/disabled/unwell, you are no longer in control of your own body and try to keep everything else under your control to compensate. So of course you end up having to rely on others to do the things you can't and hoping that they will do as good a job as you would yourself. Then having to wait for them to do things for you. It's all about patience at a time when you're feeling vulnerable and unwell and finding a focus to escape to. This page is so different to your usual ones. I like it xx
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