Pick Your Battles

Overall, don't be fighting all over over all.

This mantra came out this week during Observation of the drawings. Above all, Pick your Battles.

The particular drawing which elicited the important point contained a delightful journey of exploration and surprise as you followed a path created for you.

With close Observing, I notice a straight line connecting to the papers edge, making abstract areas. A straight line going to the middle and a meandering set of vibrations, this leading to more and varied activity, sometimes with texture. Moving through the world on this paper is a stream of energy with some resting areas. What strikes you is how undeveloped some of these areas are left. A mere suggestion that invites the viewer to contribute.

the artist author consciously picked some battlefields here and there to energize and some areas to leave alone. Without beating this racehorse to disability, the point is, if you don't have some variation in your line as you trace the pathway into your created world, we won't know when you want us to smell the Starbuck's coffee that you are trying to show us then and there at THAT time.

If you try to fight battles along the line, you won't have any Generals left. And the only line we will be following is from our i-pod and Johnny Cash, "I walk the line."

No racehorses were harmed in making of this glob. or was it blog.?