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︎︎︎ December 13th, 2024 ︎︎︎
December 13th, 2023

Icons


I’ve been thinking about icon painting a lot lately. The wood engravings aren’t selling and they don’t scratch an itch. Maybe that’s why they aren’t selling. They look nice up on the wall, but they feel a little soul-less. Maybe that’s because they aren’t selling. 

I just signed up for an icon painting class in the spring. It’s five days long, four nights at a monastery. I’m incredibly excited. I don’t think I’ll be especially good, but I’d like to be. 

I haven’t been excited about the prospect of being anything in a professional capacity for a long time. I was excited by the idea of being a father, of being a person that lives rurally, but not really of any work or skill, not for a while. 

The idea of making icons, or further, of being a maker of icons, an icon painter, that is exciting. That that excitement doesn’t, or hasn’t yet, bled into my making art or sketching, does give me pause. It’s likely that I should pick up my sketchbook after this and do a bit, but I’m tired. I think I’ll go to bed instead. 

Maybe that means I won’t be an icon painter, or maybe it just means I’m not one right now. 

Yours &c.          Bozo