After a long hiatus from creating fine art, I eagerly jumped back in to construct a series of large-scale collages over the course of a couple of days. The intent was to submit something to a local Art Museum competition that a colleague alerted me to several weeks back. Hastily completing, carefully framing, and photographing the work, I logged on to the museum’s site to enter my favorite, only to realize I missed the deadline by six hours. Aargh!
The exercise reminded me of how difficult it can be to start back into creating original art after an absence. As a full-time designer, the focus is often on visualizing literally with conformity and rigidness, whereas loosening up and conceptually “going with the flow” work better for generating art. So I present to you one of the pieces in the series titled “Past Due” named in honor of missing the entry deadline, and also realizing how much I’ve missed the rewarding aspect of creating things from the heart with my hands.