Making Time

i was showing my mom some things i had made, and she saw the amigurumi monkey, mori. she loved it most of all and said to me: “just make monkeys!”

i wish i could just do one thing, but it seems i always have to be trying to do something i don’t know how to do. i like to learn new things. i forget that by doing something over and over, you can also learn new things. i lost the discipline i learned from my sculpture teacher. when i’d show him something i made, which usually involved some kind of serendipity or happy accident, he’d hand it back and say: “make 20 more”.

dig deep!

so i started to make some more monkeys. and i’m starting to come up with a body pattern that i like. it’s like the bunny… it has a butt, and the chest comes in leaving space for arms, and the upper back curves like an old teddy bear.

but i have to get some faces on these asap.

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