Where do I go from here?  Creatively speaking I mean. I have been working on my Life Marker series for almost four years, tucking in other sculptural ideas and styles here and there, but now what?

‘The Game’, ‘Frog and Self’, ‘Mentor’ photograph by Prairie Ranger Photography

I could continue to focus on Life Markers; goodness knows life is giving me enough inspiration to draw from.  The sculptures are beautiful, moving, and an extremely effective method for me to work through some of the hiccups of life.  I could probably make them well in to the future, but is that what I really want?  To find myself thirty years from now having only experienced creativity through a single totemic style?

These are good questions, serious questions and difficult ones to answer.  Logically, from a career perspective, continuing to build on a body of work is a sound approach.  But my gut is telling me something different.  It is directing me to create based on a visceral response to being alive.  It is telling me that my style is the body of the work, regardless of the subject.

The inspiration for my work is life, and how I respond to what it offers.  Thinking about it though, it seems to me that my usual role is that of the observer.  Only upon rumination am I able to see the connection to myself in an event.  More specifically how an event acts as a lesson, offers direction, or provides the opportunity to better understand myself.

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