My social media friends most likely saw me sharing this quote earlier this week. I think it’s worthwhile and a lot to take in by itself, but it also got me thinking about my own work, and the evolution it has gone through.
Whenever I give my UQ lectures, I always show two photos to show how my jewellery has evolved.
In the Beginning
Recent Times
I’ve only been at this jewellery-making caper for a few years now – I feel that I’m still very much at ‘the beginning’ of my work, even though I’m happy with how my style has evolved. (Not to mention my photography! How hideous is that first picture? Using flash, a wrinkled backdrop, no editing… yikes!)
I wonder what I’ll think of my current work in another few years time?
To be honest, this goes for everything I do. This blog, my e-books and courses, the speaking and other writing I do. I’ve never really thought of myself as a ‘writer’ (though I always excelled back in my school days, and my Dad still holds out hope that I’ll write a novel one day).
I think I have a very long way to go in all aspects of my work – and isn’t that a freeing revelation? That you don’t have to be ‘perfect’ and have it all sorted out right now?
Where do you feel you are in your journey towards your best work?Â
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very true. thanks for sharing that.
O, Jess, I am so glad you wrote this! The tyranny of that ‘gap’ between vision and production is bothering me quite a lot lately. How encouraging to think that it’s because I’m inexperienced, and that if I keep at it things will improve. How simple. Yet somehow it needs saying.
Yes, I can compleeeetely relate to this – I used to paint and draw and once I left uni I stopped. I have been feeling the urge to get back into it but having left it for so long, (about 12 years), I’m scared to start all over again. If I’d kept it up, I’d have my style and my technique at an advanced level by now. I keep putting it off because I don’t want to do stuff that’s not very good and disappoint myself!
Thanks for that lovely quote. It is so true. I’m somewhere at a halfway point, even though I know I’ve got a lot more than that to go. I sometimes wonder if I will ever get better, or am I doomed to make the same old stuff…
I do know that I have evolved, I look at my earlier items, and cringe. But then I wonder..
Thanks again, and I love reading yoru posts. Your post on the canberra meetings was very interesting and I’ve to take on board a few things already.
Jen <3 🙂
So, so true! I feel I am evolving/ improving as an artist for sure but that I’m no where hear my peak yet! Maybe I will never get there! :0)