harvest
[hahr-vist]
noun
1. a supply of anything gathered at maturity and stored
2. the result or consequence of any act, process, or event:
The journey yielded a harvest of wonderful memories.
verb (used with object)
1.to gain, win, acquire, or use (a prize, product, or result of any past act, process, plan, etc.).
Synonyms: accumulation, collection, return.
I've taken the definition of harvest from the dictionary and excluded anything related to the harvest of a crop to show the way in which I use the term in my life. As I gather images to include on this website, I realize I am much more prolific than I ever realized. In so many ways, I once felt I had wasted time by not living my life in self absorption of the arts. But now I see how wrong that line of thinking truly is... I realize that by living my life in such the way I have, it has given me the very reasons to create.
[hahr-vist]
noun
1. a supply of anything gathered at maturity and stored
2. the result or consequence of any act, process, or event:
The journey yielded a harvest of wonderful memories.
verb (used with object)
1.to gain, win, acquire, or use (a prize, product, or result of any past act, process, plan, etc.).
Synonyms: accumulation, collection, return.
I've taken the definition of harvest from the dictionary and excluded anything related to the harvest of a crop to show the way in which I use the term in my life. As I gather images to include on this website, I realize I am much more prolific than I ever realized. In so many ways, I once felt I had wasted time by not living my life in self absorption of the arts. But now I see how wrong that line of thinking truly is... I realize that by living my life in such the way I have, it has given me the very reasons to create.
In the times of grief my friends or family members have endured, instead of a purchased card, I have given a drawing or a painting and sometimes jewelry I have made to honor their loss. For the celebration of life events, I have given works of art. In times of just observing my children grow, I have recorded a benchmark or a milestone in their lives that I wanted to immortalize. And it wasn't until the making of this website, done in the name of "shameless self-promotion", that I realize the direction my journey has taken me by way of my job, my family and my talent.
I had forgotten how one of the pieces I added to the gallery this morning looked. When I saw it again, the memory of my thoughts when I completed it rushed back into my head. I remember thinking, "I hope she likes it. I hope it speaks to her in a way that touches her. I hope she doesn't think I'm weird for not getting her flowers or a card" and unable to face her to present it to her in proper fashion, I left it between the the screen and the door of her mudroom entrance all those years ago. Such is the testament to my level of self-confidence both then and even now.
Along with the compilation of images to share here on my website there are a number more that I have lost any form of record of them other than in my memory. No pictures were taken and attempts to contact some of the people who purchased them have yielded no answer. I still have more to share and will update my galleries as I have time with both old and new work.
One more gallery will also be added eventually. At one time in my life I thought I would make my living making stained glass windows. I have a small collection of pictures, some good, some not so good to share of my windows that I need to scan. Along with the windows I also sold stepping stones made of concrete and stained glass at my husbands produce stand one summer. The stepping stones were very popular and I was given many orders to fill. I also had a plan to pursue making a line of outdoor stained glass windows for display in gardens but that idea fell by the wayside because I wasn't patient enough to see if there would be a market for them. My son has a stained glass trellis I designed that my husband and I built with treated lumber. The stained glass roses now reside in a plastic version of the trellis in his yard. He did a wonderful job converting it to a maintenance free garden structure.
One more gallery will also be added eventually. At one time in my life I thought I would make my living making stained glass windows. I have a small collection of pictures, some good, some not so good to share of my windows that I need to scan. Along with the windows I also sold stepping stones made of concrete and stained glass at my husbands produce stand one summer. The stepping stones were very popular and I was given many orders to fill. I also had a plan to pursue making a line of outdoor stained glass windows for display in gardens but that idea fell by the wayside because I wasn't patient enough to see if there would be a market for them. My son has a stained glass trellis I designed that my husband and I built with treated lumber. The stained glass roses now reside in a plastic version of the trellis in his yard. He did a wonderful job converting it to a maintenance free garden structure.
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