wheeeewwwww........ meow?

First I would like to say thanks Danielle for taking the time to dissect my "pond" print, and really enjoyed reading her paper about my work. I thought it was a very clear and logical way of attacking my work. I also felt it was clearly written and concise, which was pleasing to me as the reader.

A lot of Danielle's ideas/theories about this print are quite accurate, and are generally what I would like the viewer to "take" from the work. I did give her some help, but, if I remember correctly, I only said that this was a made up space, or something about being from my childhood. I kind of regretted doing this at first; I guess I thought that I was giving some "secret" away. At the time I wasn't prepared to say something about the work ( or not say something about it) and kind of just spit out the first thing that came to my mind. At this time, I wasn't sure If I was satisfied with where the print was at visually/conceptually, and I guess was afraid Danielle would read nothing more than "fire" and "pond" from it. I periodically thought about what I said the rest of that day, and even worked on a possible third plate which I contemplated adding to the print. I decided against adding it at this time, I felt that it took away from what was important to me. I know this is a lot of rambling, but for some reason I thought this was an interesting thing to note about the presentation of my work/

Throughout my entire life, I've had these "places of oasis" in the form of man-made ponds. These were places of peace and sanity for me, when I needed to cool-off from school/work/ect., and more importantly I think that these places have directly influenced creation in my life. By making this print, I feel that I am attempting to reconnect with these moments of tranquility and more importantly, attempting to reconnect with things that make my creative "juices" flow. The life forms and fire are to represent those people in my life that I did spend time with in these places, and outside of these places. While I do love to spend time alone, thinking, and fishing; I think that I can only really enjoy these times alone, because of the others time during the day, that I have people in my life.