The Idea Takes Shape as I Go

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Walkers are your footprints
the way and nothing more ;
Walker, there is no path,
is made by walking.
By walking the path becomes,
and looking back one sees the path
one would never walked again.
Walker, there is no path,
but wakes in the sea.

– Antonio Machado –

Caminante, son tus huellas
el camino y nada más;
Caminante, no hay camino,
se hace camino al andar.
Al andar se hace el camino,
y al volver la vista atrás
se ve la senda que nunca
se ha de volver a pisar.
Caminante no hay camino
sino estelas en la mar.

The sculpting process is often for me like the words of this poem. I might have a vague idea of the direction where I’m going but I let the idea guide me. I just need to start sculpting. Each steps reveals the path to follow. It makes sculpting more fun while turning a project into a learning and discovery process. The sculpture becomes what it wants to become. The idea takes shape as I go.

taking shapeThe most important decision to make when we allow the process to guide us is to begin. If we don’t start it is not going to happen. As I learned from one of my professors, “Art doesn’t happen. You have to make it happen”. By walking, or in this case sculpting, painting or drawing (or whatever applies) a path opens to receive us into that new adventure in creativity. This week I received several messages from different individuals who have a desire to begin sculpting. My advice for them, as for you, is to start doing it. Don’t worry about the destination. Just walk and by walking the path becomes.

Art, Photography, and Poetry

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Come close your eyes and dream

Be blown into my arms

I’ll carry you to a new place

Where the music plays a new song

Where reality is gone

All is one and we are each in motion

One with another

Here night is day and day is night

In this place of Reverie

Bradly Williams, author of Love Redefined and Charity, made my sculptures speak, along with the beautiful photography of Judie Shephard in the book The Art of Ivan Tirado. This poem takes us into a journey. It makes us stop from the busyness of everyday life to feel the wind and fly to freedom.

This collaboration is an example of how art, in its multiple forms, speaks to people. I am very passionate with my art. I enjoy getting lost in the creation process. It is no different for my friend Bradly an his writing. His new book “CHARITY, What’s in a name?” is a suspense filled story of a man and the unexpected introduction of a young girl into his life. His previous book “Love Redefined” challenges current social views of love to transform our relationships.

Nevertheless, Judie shows the same passion in her photography. You can enjoy those beautiful pictures in this website because Judie’s vision. Each angle is poetry. She makes my work look really good, and don’t get me started on the portraits. She also takes care of most of the technical aspects of the website and she is available to take care of your website too.

Whatever the art form, whenever you are confronted with it, let art speak. You won’t regret it.