Art and Space: Living in your art

One of my Favorite artists is John Howe. You may not have heard of him, but I can guarantee you probably have seen his work, or at least its influence. As well as being a prolific illustrator of fantasy, Howe was one of the concept artists for the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. If you put some of his landscape paintings next to the establishing shots in the movies, there is hardly a difference. And for the scenes in Bag-End, they actually transported the actors into one of his illustrations. John Howe also journals a lot on his website.

Yesterday I was reading one of Howe's journal entries, and I was struck with the thought: "this man lives in Middle Earth, he lives in his art".

It takes a rare artist to accomplish this step.

Where do I live?

I have been exclusively making jewelry in my studio (we'll save details for another post) and there is a certain amount of satisfaction missing from the process. Satisfaction, a certain feeling of meaning making in the images that I am unable to capture when crafting jewelry (I will call it "wearable art" when it attains the status)

Living in your art.

Where do you live?