Metamorphosis Complete

15/10/2018

Metamorphosis Hexagonal Artist's Book © Cherry Jeffs 2018 - Acrylic and mixed-media on paper

Metamorphosis Artist's Book © Cherry Jeffs 2018
Acrylic and mixed-media on paper
closed 28cm x 24.5 cm, unfolded 114cm x 64cm
TL: Front cover, TR: Back cover, Centre: Pages unfolded with hanging loop

You know what? Being finished is enough for me these days.

I leave the world to decide what it feels about my work. My job is to make it and get it out there. I give it my best while it's in progress, but then when it's done, a feeling of detachment sets in.

This detachment is a metamorphosis in itself from the perfectionist, non-completing person I used to be, and there's peace in it.

I've finally learned to accept that my work will never be 'perfect'. That it will never fulfil all the expectations I had for it. And that's ok. Because if I'd already reached art nirvana there wouldn't be a reason to keep on making more.

I'm already thinking about the next piece of work.

8 Comments

fritzie

15/10/2018 12:57:35 pm

I wish I could see it in person, or at least as it is being opened. Congratulations.

Cherry Jeffs link

15/10/2018 06:20:12 pm

Thanks Fritzie. I'm going to do a video of it being opened but it may be a few weeks before I edit and post it :) And maybe one day you'll get to hold one in your hands!

mandy link

15/10/2018 01:49:59 pm

It looks awesome

Cherry Jeffs link

15/10/2018 06:21:21 pm

Thanks Mandy. I'm a tortoise to your hare!

Donna Iona Drozda link

15/10/2018 02:20:09 pm

S C R U M P T I O U S!

Your comments regarding perfection/imperfection bring to mind Emerson writing in The Oversoul':

I, the imperfect, adore my own Perfect.
I am somehow receptive of the great soul, and thereby I do overlook the sun and the stars and feel them to be the fair accidents and effects which change and pass.

More and more the surges of everlasting nature enter into me, and I become public and human in my regards and actions. So come I to live in thoughts and act with energies which are immortal.

Thus revering the soul, and learning, as the ancient said, that "its beauty is immense," wo/man will come to see that the world is the perennial miracle which he/r soul worketh.

Gorgeous book. Bravo!!

Cherry Jeffs link

15/10/2018 06:25:23 pm

What a wonderful quote d! I especially love: "I become public and human in my regards and actions. So come I to live in thoughts and act with energies which are immortal." With age we definitely become more attuned to the long view ;)

Richard Joseph D'Addario

15/10/2018 06:00:04 pm

Hi Cherry, A moment came to me that contained a separation and then emotional detachment. I'm leaving a beach house I lived in for 20 years. Nostalgia and disappointment are part of my mix of feelings, but only on the periphery. Mostly I'm happy. Yes, I'm sad to leave. It was a wonderful run. But looking back only becomes a distraction in looking forward. I'll pull together another wonderful house and continue to enjoy life as it unfolds.

Richard

Cherry Jeffs link

15/10/2018 06:28:27 pm

Absolutely Richard! Onwards and upwards ;)

Metamorphosis Complete

You know what? Being finished is enough for me these days.

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