Day 30: SOKEN

Day 30: SOKEN

SOKEN (Japanese) invention, creation, originality

Day 29: Chūshin

Day 29: Chūshin

Chūshin (Japanese)  Heart, core, mind, inside feeling.

Day 28: KASHIMASHII

Day 28: KASHIMASHII

Kashimashii (Japanese) Noisy, Mischievous 

I choice noisy and that means loud to me.

Day 27: KOTOBA

Day 27: KOTOBA

Kotoba (Japanese):   Word.

Day 26: CHIKARA

Day 26: CHIKARA

Chikara: (Japanese)  Power, strength, force.

Day 25: MAMIHLAPINATAPAI

Day 25: MAMIHLAPINATAPAI

Mamihlapinatapai

Noun. (Yaghan)

A silent acknowledgement and understanding between two people, who are both wishing or thinking the same thing (and are both unwilling to initiate).

Day 24: YA' ABURNEE

Day 24: YA' ABURNEE

Ya' aburnee

Noun. (Arabic)

Literally, 'you bury me'.  A beautifully morbid declaration of one's hope that they will die before another person, as it would be too difficult living without them.

Day 23: GOYA

Day 23: GOYA

Goya
Noun. (Urdu)

A transporting suspension of disbelief- An "as-if" that feels like reality- such as in good storytelling.

Day 22: Forelsket

Noun. (Norwegian)

The indescribable euphoria experienced as you begin to fall in love.

Day 21 Waldeinsamkeit

 Noun.  The feeling of being alone in the woods, An easy solitude and a connectedness to nature.

I love the peace that comes with connecting with nature.

Day 20-Hiraeth

Noun.  (Welsh)

A homesickness for somewhere you cannot return to, the nostalgia and the grief for the lost places of your past, places that never were. 

This challenge has proven to be very challenging to me, each day a new word to interpret into an abstract drawing. It has been an emotional journey as well. I find that once I connect with the word the drawing fulfills me when I can emotional feel it and then let it go. Similar to writing in a journal about your feelings except each day I am sent to a feeling that I may have not been feeling that day.

Today's word took me to a place that is no longer in the family. I have such fond memories of this place that I enjoy capturing it. I tried to stay vague hoping it looked abstract.

 

Day 19 Jugadd
Ensuring that things happen even with minimal resources, even if they happen 'by hook or by crook'

In today's world there are so many things being remade into useful things from discarded items. incredible inventions of new ways of using items to make them useful.  I choose the definition below because in my world lately I like making things out of waste in the studio, lots and lots of scrap glass. Nowhere is this the true meaning of jugadd as I have such respect for all the creative things happening.

This meaning is often used to signify creativity to make existing things work or to create new things with meagre resources.

The image is vitrograph cane. I have been recycling and making murrine cane (Murrina (common pluralization murrine) is an Italian term for colored patterns or images made in a glass cane (long rods of glass) that are revealed when cross cut into sections. 

Day 18: Trepverter

Day 18: Trepverter

Trepverter

Noun.  (Yiddish)

A witty riposte or comeback you think of only when it's too late to use.  
Literally means 'staircase words'.

Not a thing I think of much. I know some people who are really good at comebacks. Not Me!

So this was hard to come up with something this is the best I can do.

Day 17: RESFEBER 

Resfeber

Noun. (Swedish)

The restless beat of a traveler's heart before the journey begins. A mixture of anxiety and anticipation.

I always feel excited when I travel but along with that comes some anxiety of leaving my home. 

Day 16  Nunchi

Noun Korean : the subtle, often unnoticed art of listening and 

gauging another's mood.


I kept thinking of the quiet of water and how it captures what 

is around it. So for me this is my impression of subtle 

unnoticed listening.

Day 15 Contentment
: the state of being content

  

When I think of contentment I think of being content with what you have and who you are. I have contentment when I feel whole within my world.

Day 14 Despair

Day 14  Despair

The complete loss or absence of hope. 

Yesterday's word slavery lead me to hopelessness, so today's word despair with the meaning the complete loss or absence of hope makes me dig deeper.

When despair totally overtakes us we are not even aware of the activities of others. We isolate ourselves and feel totally separated from others. Most women know the saying" wallowing in the depths of despair."

 

Day 13 Slavery

Submission to a dominating influence.  

Day 12 Motivation
:the act or process of motivating someone

We are 12 days into these morning exercises. What I find I am learning is how important value, scale and balance is to a composition. I know these are important but they seem so much more apparent in abstract.

Day 11  Infatuation  

 an intense but short-lived passion or admiration for someone or something.

As we soar through life our wings have the fragility to be easily broken.

Day 9 and Day 10
Fragility:Having the quality of being easily broken or destroyed.

 As we soar through life our wings have the fragility to be easily broken.

Elegance:tasteful richness of design or ornamentation.   

Objects in life that give us the feeling of richness.

Day 8 Justice

Justice : the quality of being just, impartial, or fair.

  I believe in treating very one equal regardless it you are large or small, black or white, tall or short.

Day 7 Envy

:  painful or resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by another joined with a desire to possess the same advantage.

When we envy something of our peers we actually make what we have seem less and not as important. Envy can make us feel bad about ourselves.

Day 6 Waste

Waste: an action or use that results in an unnecessary loss of something valuable.

My thoughts on this one is sometimes we have something valuable and we let it fade away. It is only after our loss do we realize the value. In this piece I wanted to give the diamond in the center value then with gradation show it loosing value then when it was gone the realization of value.

Day 5  Communication

Communication: to exchange information or to express your ideas, thoughts, feeling, etc., to someone else.

I choose this definition because I feel true communication only comes when you hear what the other person is saying.

Day 4 Chaos

Chaos  - The definition I like is: Any condition or place of disorder or confusion. 

 I think we were all glad to see such a familiar word. I have no doubt when someone comes into my studio that they see a state of chaos. Kiln formed glass is a process and when one piece is firing I am working on another piece to finish it or to start it.  I even have to say to myself sometimes focus to know where to start. So welcome to my studio.

 

Now back to the studio to find my way.

The door had too much importance in my drawing so I redid it to make it more of the design.

Day3 
Generosity
  : the quality of being kind, understanding, and not selfish : the quality of being generous; especially: willingness to give money and other valuable things to others.

Yesterday I thought my piece of the sun on the water did not look as abstract as I felt it should. I was thinking I was using texture to depict my thought but I feel it looked to physical so I have revisited the definition of ABSTRACT.

Abstract nouns are intangible, and do not have a physical or concrete existence. Abstract existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence. 

My thoughts today: When I think of generosity I think of giving to others; I think of giving time; I think of giving of yourself. So I wanted my piece to have circles representing time and or people. I wanted one to seem filled up and less important than the second one who is filling up from the first. 

I am not sure if I accomplished my thought because I know my own intent. If is up to the viewer to comment. 

Day 2
Definition of effulgence:  radiant splendor :  brilliance


I woke up to a new word and a colder day than yesterday, it was -14.
Effulgence the first thing that comes to mind when I see the word radiant is heat.
The word splendor and brilliance takes to where I was yesterday on a beach somewhere. I have always noticed when the sun is just right on the ocean how it shines with radiant splendor. So even though it's not total abstract the thought  I tried to create a design with that in mind. I was trying not to define it total not sure I succeeded. When I went to photograph it the light was hitting just right and there it was. I think how you photograph your work is important but not wanting to cheat I will include both pictures.

The abstract version of my Comfort drawing.

I had missed the part about being abstract so this is my abstract version of "Comfort".

Me being vertical absorbing heat waves. 

January 2016

 We are drawing again thanks to Kelly the January challenge is on. I have had to refresh myself with the blog and how to do things.

 This year we will be given an noun to inspire us to complete a simple 15-20 min drawing to warm up our creative juices.


Jan, 1
Comfort
 
I woke up to -9 degrees so comfort for me is a tropical beach somewhere,