One Year On...

My blog is one year old today. How time flies. This means that this time last year my degree show exhibition was running, and I'd pretty much finished being at uni. Actually, that does seem a really long time ago now. I'm definitely far from being a student now; I have a "proper" job, I go out to tea rooms on Saturday afternoon's, and I wear pencils skirts a lot. All of these things must mean I'm a proper adult now (let's just ignore the game of ultimate frisbee on Thursday.)

A lot can happen in a year, and a lot did happen. But not so much in an arty sense. I few bits and pieces here and there, but nowhere near what I'd hoped to have achieved in a year. So I'm spending a good deal of time planning; how can I get the money/space/time I need? What direction should I go in first? How many forms would I need to fill in if I did 'A'? How much of a risk would it be if I did 'B'? I'm not getting many answers yet, but I'm starting to know the questions I need to ask. I know that I want to start being more creative again. I have a few projects I'd love to get off the ground. And I know I really don't want to work in an office my whole life.

So, the quest continues...

52 Hertz

I read a story a few days ago, about the loneliest whale on the planet. His name is the 52 Hertz Whale. And his story just breaks my heart.

You see, most whales sing at between 15 and 25 hertz, but in 1989 the US Navy picked up a whale song frequency of 52 hertz. This lone whale, that no one has ever actually seen, is singing away, calling out for friends, at a frequency too high for any other whale to even hear, let alone respond.

It could be that he's a hybrid whale, or a relic of a nearly extent species we've not yet discovered, or a mermaid, or maybe just a whale with a speech impediment. It's a mystery.

So, as he has no companions, he's lost out there in the great, wide and deep ocean, following his own migration route, all alone.

You can hear his call, compared to other whales, by clicking >here<. Isn't it heartbreaking?

Man, I just can't stop thinking about this whale, out there somewhere, right now.

Transform

"...being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completionuntil the day of Christ Jesus."

Philippians 1:6

This was yesterday's Transform piece. Jamie spoke about God completing the work he has started in us, and used the above verse. My interpretation was God's unending creation, always growing and expanding. I used the tree (gosh, I do love a good tree) as an example of the way God grows and develops spiritual fruits in us. I painted the tree and the little blue bird in the middle there, everything else was done by the girls at Transform who took up the theme perfectly without me even having to explain it. How creative are they?

This is the plan I scribbled down beforehand, but I didn't show it to anyone. The final thing turned out very similar don't you think?

Remember, wherever you're at in your life, God's still working in you. You are His masterpiece.