I am a dreamer by nature, I have massive dreams and I try and make the majority of them a reality. I love art so much, it is such an expressive environment with so many mediums and disciplines that you could never get bored in the Art world. I also think in the contemporary world we live in you can't even read to the bottom of the first page of the paper without feeling despondent and depressed. There is so much violence and hatred in the world it is hard to not get sucked in to being a cynic and a pessimist.
I think my ideology is naive but I really couldn't care less, I want to spend my life living my dreams and being the best me that I can be. I want to be an Artist of some nature because in my heart I know that's what makes me happy, what makes my soul sing and so far I feel that idea is going really well. However sometimes it is easy to get trapped in a rut and feel like nothing is moving forward but that is the very moment I look back at the path I have traveled.
Personally I have invested not only a lot of money [inconsequential reality] but also quite a bit of time pursuing my dream. People who read my blog might have read a previous entry where I have explained my journey but in brief I looked into Art as a form of escape when I was 16 and next year marks 10 years of perseverance and I only really realised that last Monday on my 25th birthday. My style has majorly changed since when I first began and my confidence within my work has grown but both of those are naturally consequences to any form of work. I would say out of those near 10 years the last couple have held the steepest learning curve and I can safely say I can add that I do not suffer fools gladly to my ever growing list of qualifications attained from the University of Life. I believe that if you want to do something then you do it, life is too short and excuses are way to easy to come by and regretfully only old age holds a steadfast guarantee of forgetting and forgiving. Actions [big, small or non-existent] do hold consequences and consequences by nature are constant and resolute; non moving in their rooted position in the history of life and the world and that is a stark reality in any existence.
So my point? Don't make excuses for not doing what you want to do no matter if your dreams are big or small. The moment where you form a seed of a dream and the making of that dream a reality is very fleeting indeed and before you know it the chances of the dream being reality have gone... and then the dream becomes a distant memory of a possibility that will never be. Excuses build monuments to nothing but a big sign of your own idiocy. Some people are happy doing nothing and that is amazing in its own right and some people want to travel the world and they should keep dreaming that dream.
Life is a fragile beauty, a fleeting spark in an old fire and so to waste that time is futile. We should all be striving to be better people physically, mentally, spiritually [whatever beliefs you might hold] both within our personal lives as well within our work.
Right now, this very moment, I want to go and sit in the sun and just watch the world go about its own merry tune, sometimes beauty is in the simplest of wishes... so sitting in the sun is exactly where I am about to go.. :D
To end I wish to share an important piece of work from my 'Macrocosm' project which I have dedicated to my lovely Nan who is awesome.
[Laura Ashford, 'Macrocosm']
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