Tasmania Residency

My thoughts and emotions were feeling scrambled so I decided to drive up the Tamar (a direction I hadn't been before) in the hope that the sea air would straighten me out. I drove for about an hour and ended up stopping at Narawntapu National Park not far from Green's Beach. I felt so nervous and full of apprehension that day and I'm not sure why. I don't know if I'll ever understand why and how a person's moods can shift so quickly. One day you are out and about feeling free and full of inspiration and the next day you feel so quiet and empty and it's so hard to grasp onto one little thing. I feel like my artwork is so tied up with my life and emotions that I don't know if I can separate work and life. I wonder if that will change as I grow older; maybe my process will become more disciplined. It's important for me to work on things when the time is right as I feel like that is the time when you create honest and engaging work. I suppose feelings are continually shifting and it is important to give them time and space to do so. I feel like a little bit of silence always helps. Silence is something that I look for when I travel out to the countryside. It was nice to sit on the cliffs for a while and watch the waves crash in and breathe in the salty air. On the drive back to Launceston I went on a large and unnecessary detour around back dirt roads and picked an armful of apples from a tree on the side of the road. It was a nice end to the afternoon. Sometimes you just have to keep plodding along.