Tuesday shout out to Clark

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Marc411

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When the sun goes away for winter.

Really the other one makes me so very depressed as I look at it remembering the joy I had making things and now? I just take up space. My MS has leveled me and taken away my greatest joy in life making pottery. I sit here, I sleep, I dream up wonderful new things I'd like to make and I do not have the physical ability to do so. I wander around touching my work and crying some and it is just too depressing.

And the avi kinda makes me giggle as the sun is so very happy in that cartoon and it makes me angry. Evil sun!!! *shakes fist*

Megan so sorry that you can't follow your passion for pottery. My only thought for the empty space that's been left open in your life is that we fill that spot with our love for you on the site. I wish I was closer to make it real but I know for a fact that everyone here sends you a piece of themselves to fill the void. Messing with you would be so much more fun up close and personal!

I wish there was a way to help pick you up and chase away the saddness. Be strong and know that we are all here trying to help chase that sadness away.
 

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While searching for this I came across the Sun City Girls - Cooking with Satan on Youtube. Worth finding.
 

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When the sun goes away for winter.

Really the other one makes me so very depressed as I look at it remembering the joy I had making things and now? I just take up space. My MS has leveled me and taken away my greatest joy in life making pottery. I sit here, I sleep, I dream up wonderful new things I'd like to make and I do not have the physical ability to do so. I wander around touching my work and crying some and it is just too depressing.

And the avi kinda makes me giggle as the sun is so very happy in that cartoon and it makes me angry. Evil sun!!! *shakes fist*

Cheer up or I will dress up like He-Man and make a fool of myself. XOXO
 

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When the sun goes away for winter.

Really the other one makes me so very depressed as I look at it remembering the joy I had making things and now? I just take up space. My MS has leveled me and taken away my greatest joy in life making pottery. I sit here, I sleep, I dream up wonderful new things I'd like to make and I do not have the physical ability to do so. I wander around touching my work and crying some and it is just too depressing.

And the avi kinda makes me giggle as the sun is so very happy in that cartoon and it makes me angry. Evil sun!!! *shakes fist*

I literally feel your pain.
I'm an artist and master leather worker. My primary medium is leather and my primary focus was sculpture and mask making. Great heaping amounts of fine, detailed tooling and using dyes like a painter uses brushes.
About a year ago, I contracted a strange viral infection that attacked my eyes. For several months, I was close to being blind. Eventually, the docs identified and irradicated the cause which returned most of my sight to me, but left me with an extreme light sensitivity that can't be mitigated enough to normalize my vision even by wearing shades (which I do most of the time).
As a result, I can't work on my art at all anymore. The way my eyes work now is like looking through a cloud of steam all the time.
I pop in and out of here and FB a few times a day, but more than a few minutes on my iPad or computer becomes painful.
I also have a constant stream of ideas for new pieces I'd like to do that I just can't do anymore.
 

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I literally feel your pain.
I'm an artist and master leather worker. My primary medium is leather and my primary focus was sculpture and mask making. Great heaping amounts of fine, detailed tooling and using dyes like a painter uses brushes.
About a year ago, I contracted a strange viral infection that attacked my eyes. For several months, I was close to being blind. Eventually, the docs identified and irradicated the cause which returned most of my sight to me, but left me with an extreme light sensitivity that can't be mitigated enough to normalize my vision even by wearing shades (which I do most of the time).
As a result, I can't work on my art at all anymore. The way my eyes work now is like looking through a cloud of steam all the time.
I pop in and out of here and FB a few times a day, but more than a few minutes on my iPad or computer becomes painful.
I also have a constant stream of ideas for new pieces I'd like to do that I just can't do anymore.

*HUGS from one outcast to another* Yes, you most certainly do. Your work is stunning and I certainly know the sorrow in not being able to be the artist you once were. It's so easy to sit separate from this and say, "You can do something new!!! You can!!! Because you are so good!!!" but we work at something and it never measures up.

For me I try something and it's just crap. It's like ten thousand tons of clay practice has been stripped from me and I'm throwing like I just started.

You and me AD, we're a pair for certain!!
 
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