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<\/p>\nA morning of colored\u00a0glass.<\/p>\n
The gleaming pieces caught the sun and the glint of snow through the window. I wanted to handle them all.<\/p>\n
I got out all the glass fragments that I’d cut this week, and spread them out. And played.<\/p>\n
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I made a dozen small pieces, just a few inches across, and experimented with how various layers might look.<\/p>\n
And then I dumped all but a few back into their bins for another day’s play.<\/p>\n
If you rip up or discard a drawing or painting in a class, your art teacher id likely to\u00a0scold you. Apparently they think you will someday be glad when you look back on your old, crappy work.<\/p>\n
I don’t agree. Hanging onto every piece just makes me\u00a0self-conscious. Overly precious.<\/p>\n
That’s what I like about the construction paper game<\/a>, and now the colored glass game.<\/p>\n This casual, create-then-obliterate cycle makes me less attached to each piece. Less critical of my\u00a0failures, but\u00a0raising my standards with each one that nearly succeeds.<\/p>\n I kept three today. Once they have been fused in the kiln, they’ll be softened and other changes happen (some unexpected<\/a>).\u00a0So I like to enjoy their sharper-edged, raw versions as they are now.<\/p>\n This one is wind and joy:<\/p>\n And here is a bluebird with his song (by the way, the amber tones are actually shadows of the black and green pieces):<\/p>\n This one is a part of a drum being born:<\/p>\n Let’s call it art therapy, to keep those art teachers and critics at bay.<\/p>\n I just feel better when I play with colors and shapes. Especially in the morning.<\/p>\n The penny for today is 2015, the year when I began doing this form of art therapy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A morning of colored\u00a0glass. The gleaming pieces caught the sun and the glint of snow through the window. I wanted to handle them all. I got out all the glass fragments that I’d cut this week, and spread them out. And played. I made a dozen small pieces, just a few inches across, and experimented … read more Art therapy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[67,35,580,355,586,416,284,589,454,588,585,587],"class_list":["post-6627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvisation","tag-67","tag-art","tag-bluebird","tag-color","tag-drum","tag-game","tag-glass","tag-raw","tag-shapes","tag-sharp","tag-therapy","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6646,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627\/revisions\/6646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Wind](\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/FullSizeRender_2.jpg\")
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