What A Relief – Completing A Monumental Stone Carving.

Last week I was thinking my wife should write a blog. Lol.

It is only now occurring to me that maybe this whole blog thing was my point all along.

A way for me to share my art business journey in a different way.

A way for me to help myself organize my thoughts.

A way for me to grow my art business and create different types of content.

I am kind of intending this to be a weekly blog, but come on….seriously…’ Intentions’

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It seems like when I ‘Intend’ to do something one way, it ends up leading somewhere else.

To me, this is what happens when your ‘MIND’ – like thoughts, ideas, intentions- Meet ACTUAL REALITY – Things that happen in the physical reality, like when you actually physically sit down at your computer and start writing.

It’s a beautiful thing, really.

So welcome (or welcome back) to my blog.

This last week, I completed my most ambitious art project yet

It is a 2000-LB Italian Marble Polar Bear.

I invested about 7 months into carving the piece from scratch from a large block of marble.

I call it taking a calculated risk

I wanted to create this impact piece. Something different than the smaller/medium-sized pieces I was doing.

Something that was NOT just another cog-in-the-wheel type piece to keep everything kind of moving as is.

I wanted to change it up and create something on a different level. Something transcendent. At least for me when it comes to my art journey and in all truth I have never created a piece quite like this in fact. When it comes to the ART UNIVERSE, I have created and am creating this piece truly does stand alone in its own galaxy.

Now with that said I am soooooooo looking forward to getting back to my ‘cog-in-the-wheel type pieces and definitely don’t get me wrong…

The cog-in-the-wheel type of works are the foundation of my art business and creative evolution.

They are the bricks in the wall of the life I am building as an artist.

The point is – I am done my large piece and I am so relieved and can feel my body relaxing and decompressing. Even after a few days each time I think about the polar bear I experience a deep sense of relaxation and relief, which kind of indicates to me that there was a level of stress I was carrying with me as I carved that piece.

I am grateful to be done and to now sit here with a very exciting question…

Now What?