The newest artwork that started happening before the Coop and that might have actually set off the idea of the Coop to begin with are the Doodle Drawings.http://www.joannawhitney.com/drawings/album/ The doodle drawings got started when I read a book called You Already Know What To Do, by Sharon Franquemont. This book is about developing intuition and in it there is a suggestion regarding asking drawings what they mean. Wow! I had never thought of that. I have always drawn these weird people that I never could relate to but it never occurred to me to ask them who they were or what they wanted from me – well I started doing that at the end of August and I also started to ask these drawings questions – like I started doing a big doodle and asking a question and then drawing what I saw and then finding out what the drawing was trying to tell me. It has been startling – because I have a whole visual language in addition to my written language that has nuances that I could never express verbally without the pictures as a source. I am learning so much and shortly after I started doing that, the idea about the Worker Cooperative came into my view. I have always interacted with the Unseen through visions and symbols but the drawing thing has added an entirely other dimension to it.
Then to go fly signs I invented these little collages on cardboard that I am going to take to the Crafts Fair and also use as Rewards in the Kickstarter Campaign.http://joannawhitney.com/files/art4help.html
New interesting art – some new mediums – ball point pen, cardboard, trash, people – I like it. I have been bored to tears for a long long time, and now things are taking off in radically new directions.
I am an artist and I am living as an artist. I hope to get used to it soon – because it can be pretty scary at times although I am always taken care of.
