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emerging. Maybe I should add add layers on top. Smaller shapes
some paint too? But I didn’t want suggesting leaves and stems and
to use a brush, I sensed this flowers. An idea of the tumbling
would tighten me up and mass of natures abundance and
interrupt the journey I was on. how plants mingle and jostle for
So, I started printing some lines space in all kinds of
and circles just using things I unpromising and unlikely place
had to hand, a piece of card, the began to emerge. I had no idea
top from a glue stick, the edge at this point if it would all dry
of a piece of paper. I felt into something useable, but I was
joyful and free as I worked, focused on the process rather
ideas of success and failure had than the outcome.
receded and I was happily After a couple of hours, I had
immersed in the process. something I felt could work. Time
Eventually the whole canvas was to let it dry and see.
covered in fabric and I began to
