Remember playing crack the whip as a kid? It was always so fun to be at the end of the line getting swung crazily around. My wall sculpture, Wild Ride, captures that feeling with the little star fish and puffer hanging on for dear life to the whale’s tail as it leaps and frolics it’s way through the ocean.
It is also symbolic of the wild ride we’ve all been on during this past year of uncertainty and change. Who would have thought we’d give up going out to eat, riding on trains, planes and busses, sending our kids to school? If someone had told me in 2019 what lay ahead for us I wouldn’t have believed it. But here we are having survived it all and learning to be brave enough to go outside again.
Out on the headlands we see the whales migrating past the Mendocino coast. (I guess they didn’t get the SIP memo.) I always enjoy seeing them spouting water and waving their fins and tails at me. They seem to love to frolic and put on a show for all of us land lovers.
I don’t know about you but the world is starting to feel a little safer to me lately. As we get vaccinated I think that, like the whales, we’re all ready to ‘migrate’ to new places and get out to see the world again.
I look forward to welcoming you back into The Pot Shop in the coming months. It’s filled with pieces I’ve made over the past year and I can’t wait to share them with you!
Where are you looking forward to going again?