continuing the work process

Their is something to be said about just simply producing work. Over the last month or so I have been so caught up in trying to produce a good idea and trying to fit the idea into the type of work that I do/ want to do that I have been stunted in my progress. So this past week I have spent most of my studio time just simply creating. Working with metals is such a long a tedious process that you really have time to think about what you are making and what it means as you make it. I've continued to work on my second locket and have begun sketching out more ideas for future lockets, the forms of which are inspired by the memories. I have decided that I really enjoy doing work in this manner much more than writing out tons of ideas and trying to fit and idea into a piece. It is better, and easier for me to work, produce something with a simple idea in mind, and then let the piece speak for itself and come up with a more in-depth meaning and concept behind the pieces. I have found this week that I am more of a retrospective person- I don't realize my concepts until the pieces are finished and I can see the concept I had buried in them come to the surface. So although I have not been posting quite as much recently, I have been doing much more physical work and I believe my IP is starting to move along in a good direction that I am enjoying. So for now... writing more memories, sketching locket ideas based on them, and beginning the process of making these lockets- this is what I am doing at this point in the semester.