Reflections on Playfulness

 Over the past month, I've tried to keep playfulness in mind. There have been so horrible failures in that regard - and a few moments when it felt like the sun was shining through the clouds.

My primary takeaways are as follows:

There are no mistakes with creativity - only interesting detours. 

And... that my creative expression reflects the world that I want to see. My art is about the patterns and colors and moments that elicit my delight and attention. 

Today, I'm playing with the patterns of river rocks or cobble on the beach. Out in the quilt world this has been called a sea glass pattern but it feels more than that to me.  I'm not sure yet how this is going to show up in fabric but my creative senses are tingling...

Playfulness is a state of being that needs many feelings and awareness to really come into being. Curiosity. A lightness of being - that can only happen when one knows where the ground is under the feet. A willingness to let go, to gently poke, to smile, to love. To bask. Laugh. And let an experiment be just that - an experiment that brings learning and other possibilities. Open to influence. Listening outside the noise of lived experience. 

All of which seems easy. Its not easy - not until old ruts and patterns and voices are softly set aside.