Geri deGruy's blog of art, musings, and inspiration

Much of what I love about making art is creating a unified work out of smaller, sometimes disparate pieces.  I will even cut up a finished piece to make something new with the parts. It is satisfying to me deep within to fit and shape parts together into a whole, a fresh vision, a completed idea, a joining together.

This morning I read a quote of artist Louise Bourgeois to this very point.

"I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole."

YES! 

Art for me has an aspect of redemption at work---trying to piece it all together, to create a wholeness out of brokenness. It is a beautiful thing.