The Crags

So I'm thinking my latest project is drawing one of the places I love most in Edinburgh, the Crags, with a view to doing some printmaking over winter. I wanted to draw so much more this summer, but other things it's true have taken precedence. I think I love the Crags even more when it's windy and the clouds are dark, mixed with some patches of white and it's all a bit wild just before it begins to rain.

Freedom

This is my final piece relating to the last blog post I wrote, which was all the way back in May. I read in a book, The Creative Gift by HR Rookmaaker, that freedom is not freedom from something but freedom to do something, freedom to act (to paraphrase). When I did this piece I was thinking about freedom from depression. Freedom from slavery, freedom from fear, but what about freedom to stop slavery, freedom to stop fear. I think that there's just something so much more powerful about using "to" instead of "from". How great it would be to always want to run to and not from something.