DANDELION FIELDS: Lightning over the Golden Gate

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Lightning over the Golden Gate

Lightning over the Golden Gate Bridge.
BMW Pumkin Carving Competition, Halloween 2008. 2nd place.

I won First Place in 2007. Don't be awed. It was an amateur competition and I competed against smiley pumpkins (you know, triangle eyes and a boat for a mouth) and jack-o-lanterns! But this one lost. I was in a hurry and there was no planning. Everything happened overnight -- it was a random concept. It was also my first time to use the hubby's drummel tool too. I guess I'll switch back to manual labor for 2009. I trust my fingers more than any mechanical tool, I guess.

~Clarisse

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Your Artist In The Raw

I started drawing with my father as soon as I was old enough to hold a pencil (what is old enough for me? 12 months? *teehee*). In preschool, I felt a little awkward and embarassed because I was already sketching things in 3D, while my classmates were struggling to draw stick people. I can still vividly remember my rendition of the flame and the partially melted ice cube with a wet pool around it (thanks to Daddy -- whose idea of playtime and bonding time was the Drawing Guessing Game, way before Pictionary came out). I still do the drawing guessing game with little kids. I think we need to tap into their creative, inferential and expressive skills early on. It matters a lot to shaping one's character for later in life.

Sadly, all my sketchbooks and sketchpads of two decades (including those that were on exhibit for a time when I was in the university) were never returned to me -- even threatened to be burnt and are perhaps really ashes by now -- after a previous relationship has gone awry. I still don't know what came of them.

So I have nothing much to show now, only lessons learned. And a testimony of the truth that...LIFE GOES ON. Art prevails! And this site is a form of my commitment to find time to create works of art again inspite of my busy schedule.

Though I'm not the best in the world, I'm proud of my works because this hobby (and skill) is one of the most special things that connect me to my DADDY who still sketches wonderful drawings up to this day. Though he and I are geographically apart now, like a secret magic thread, this language ties our hearts together. Tightly.