Momentum can be a tricky thing. If we’re moving in a positive direction, building and maintaing momentum is crucial. But if we’ve begun sliding into bad habits or toward danger, we need to do everything we can to stop the propulsion. In her Plank sculptures, New York artist Leslie Wayne takes her paint on a journey, pushing and piling like lava flowing down a hillside.
Sometimes we can temporarily stop the slide, but what if it just keeps coming, piling and piling until it overflows? Maybe the trick is to just let it slide. Sometimes we need to allow ourselves the freedom to shift so that we can position ourselves to move away from one thing and build toward another. The shifting can be tricky, though. Overcorrecting might delay or detour. But if just allow a tiny, scary bit of sliding, we move with greater purpose.
To see more of Leslie Wayne‘s work, please visit her website.
All images are via the artist’s website.
When faced with the mortality of our parents, it drives home our own vulnerability. In my mom’s weakness and helplessness, I saw my own– how scared I was sometimes to be alone with her, fearful that something could happen and I wouldn’t know what to do for her. Next to losing her, it was my biggest fear. Not being enough. Not being able.
