"Time and Money" (sold)

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"Managing time and money is mandatory to success." Even though this quote seems like a "no brainer", it is quite amazing how many people still grapple with these two issues. Perhaps this could be the first New Year's resolution for all of us.

The division of space in this piece was first created with the clock and a few color shapes. What makes it more compelling is to run lines edge to edge both horizontally and vertically. It gives a greater feeling of depth as though there was a piece of cracked glass over the entire image. This is just a natural evolving of the process of manipulating photographs by continuing to add layers. I realized after completing the piece that I could have left more of the white gesso covering the image and do a drawing over the whole thing. This is the beauty of keeping a "thread" of creativity going on a daily basis. If the time spent on creating artwork only happens once a week or every month or so, it is much more difficult to have the natural unfolding of ideas that come from daily spending time with the process.

As for placement of the lettering...I was once again thinking of connections and shapes. It was natural to place the white lettering next to the white shape and have the lettering almost running off of the edge. It created a natural connection and shape which would not have happened if I had placed the lettering anywhere else. I am presently experimenting with freely written versals with no guidelines. It may look a little "funky", but I don't mind. In fact I rather have a satisfaction out of just writing randomly without all the fuss over perfectly straight and perfectly formed letters. These are just a few more things to think about.