{"id":11797,"date":"2016-02-08T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=11797"},"modified":"2019-06-09T15:22:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T22:22:33","slug":"the-energy-of-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/the-energy-of-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Energy of Passion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I only now realized that this week ends with Valentine’s day and I had to stop and contemplate whether\u00a0I should do a theme. \u00a0Last year’s personal love stories<\/a> just can’t be topped, though, so let’s dial it back to the essence of what Valentine’s day represents. Or try.\u00a0What it represents is rather personal though, isn’t it? I know for most people it represents\u00a0romantic love, but I like to think of it as being about passion. And that passion can be towards anyone or anything that you feel intensely about. It’s definitely a more all-inclusive day if it is\u00a0a holiday in which we can celebrate all the things we love so dearly as we all have someone or something that is lucky enough to get so much of our passion.<\/p>\n

It is hard to say what passion looks like in art, but I think we all know it when we see it. High energy and maybe even a little tension works. A dash of red doesn’t hurt either. So, today I am sharing something I shared a while back on my personal Facebook page because it is so amazing and embodies what I see as a multi-faceted\u00a0sense of passion.<\/p>\n

This polymer and mixed media sculptural work is by the amazing Forest Rogers<\/a>. \u00a0The energy in this piece is so intense, it’s rather mesmerizing. The energy is in the heavy directional lines of the torn fabric, the horizontal arms, the flung back wings of the crow, and the slant of the weaponry on the ground. To really bring it home, there is that streak\u00a0of blood-red streaming behind the figure whose\u00a0implacable sense of forward motion seems to be leaving everything behind. Forest did not leave a lot of breathing room here, but we aren’t distressed by it because we recognize the emotion. It’s a full and intense\u00a0passion, maybe sheathed in fury or defiance, but passion nonetheless for whatever cause this creature is flinging herself into.<\/p>\n

I think this also embodies Forest’s passion for her work. All of her pieces have an unearthly energy to them, an energy that comes not just from her skill as an\u00a0artist, but from a real sense of how fully invested she is in her\u00a0craft and her\u00a0vision. I feel this in that spot right below the ribcage\u00a0when I get lost in my work, when the art just seems to spill from my fingertips. It seems most present when I am just creating without purpose or caring what anyone else will think of it. A passion for one’s art comes from simply needing to do it, from letting it become instead of struggling to create. I don’t know if that makes sense to all of you, but this piece very much calls to mind\u00a0that truly intense\u00a0passion for creating. If you have had that feeling for your creative work, then I feel sure you can see it too.<\/p>\n

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Inspirational Challenge of the Day: <\/strong>Use high energy directional lines to design or create an energetic or passionate piece. You can use Forest’s\u00a0example to inspire your energetic lines or look to other work that you think is\u00a0particularly energetic and passionate. See if you can discern the lines in the work that help relay this and try to recreate that energy in an original design of your own.<\/p>\n

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