Thank you much, Rick, thank you much!

Rob,

First, thank you for your condolences. Skip was like a brother to me.

What I was thinking and feeling is what inspired me to make this piece. Someone recently told me that I am like a sponge when it comes to my art... that I absorb other's visions and passions, and then turn them into my own interpretations. I'm still having a hard time with internal motivation and creativity. I would work more if I could think of what to do.

Ayn Rand says: "It is an artist's sense of life that controls and integrates his work, directing the innumerable choices he has to make, from the choice of subject to the subtlest details of style."

I know subject matter is all around me, I'm just not seeing it.

Thanks again, J.R.

Hi J.R.
That cross is obviously heart felt. I think that life doesn't always tell us what to make in obvious ways.Maybe a piece about what you don't see/feel.???
Frank

J.R.
My condolences, I recently lost one of my best friends, it was hard to work, and all I could do was clean my shop, make a mess and clean it again.
You are a strong man to make such a deliberate piece for a loved one like this.
Matt