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Layer by Layer

August 9th, 2010

Many of my female readers might be familiar with the hairstyling term, but for my readers who aren’t familiar with it, when a stylist “layers” a client’s hair, the stylist is adding shape, volume, and style. Pieces of hair are cut on an angle, usually framing the face, in different lengths.

Any artist uses a similar technique when creating… adding layer by layer to a work to give it definition and texture.

A lot of my work during the last few days has involved layering… listening for those spaces where more needs to be said or defined. It’s not an involved process… since there’s no road map, or even a way to “see” it on its feet yet… at this point, I’m relying purely on my ear and my intuition. I’m reading passages and I usually intuitively stop when it feels like something is missing.Then I go in and try and fill it in.

This piece is still taking shape, word by word, strand by strand… and I can’t wait to see how it’ll turn out.

–Sue

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