msfledermaus | One small table zen-box later....

I feel very pleased with the result. And I always feel better about things in general when I'm creating something that wasn't there before.

I have to admit, sometimes I feel a little like Devi from "I feel sick" by Jhonen Vasquez. Especially if I'm feeling bluesy about not really being in a relationship right now. When things are good, I hum little happy tunes and make something interesting; get the image out of my head and where other people can see it. Or I do a custom job for someone, and it's as good or better than their expectations. A piece of experience and vision translated into the physical realm, to be handled and passed on and to gain new dimensions of experience and history with or without me.

When things are bad, I have my art for comfort. or to comfort others, to show them that life isn't all dull and hopeless, that mysteries and wit and joy have a place in an increasingly drab and structured landscape.

I have paint under my fingernails again today.

and a smudge on my elbow

*satisfied smile*