Creative Confessions

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10 Questions for Wendy Russell of Artrussell


1. Morning person or a night person?
Morning person

2. Best book ever?
Cider House Rules by John Irving

3. Favorite place on earth?
Vermont

4. Like your birthday or dread it?
Like it

5. Most frequently used swear word?
"@*#%

6. Favorite Thanksgiving day food?
vegetarian stuffing

7. Los Angeles or New York City?
New York City

8. Favorite way to waste time?
tearing inspirational bits from magazines

9. $250 to spend on anything – what do you buy?
artsupplies and art supplies

10. Signature adjective?
tenacious



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the taste was not so sweet

I will work on an earring design for days. Making prototype after prototype, going through yards of cheap copper wire, trying to make it finish as I have it sketched or in my mind's eye. Suddenly it is there in my hands, as if by magic. That pleasant tingly rush comes and feeling remarkably clear-headed, I break out the sterling silver and fashion another and another.

But wait, the initial enthusiasm - - it's decidedly fading.
To my eye, the earrings are just as pretty, but my mind has begun to wander off in a new direction... What if I did this instead of that?... maybe if I connect it here instead of there? ... and now it is time to try something fresh.

"The human mind once stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions" said Oliver Wendell Holmes. And I'd like to amend that profound bit of wisdom to include

~ neither does silver wire.


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