I took the plunge- I changed my username.

For a few reasons. Primarily, a lot has changed in this past year.. a lot of tastes have been tested and defined, and as a result of that my artistic "voice" has been refined. I haven't been doing much art but my opinions, my presuppositions, and my beliefs have been refined. And I know that will be reflected in my art somehow.

I'm still an equine artist, still a fan of realism, but there has to be another depth to it, the bottom dropping out to another sphere of understanding myself, the world, God. I'm excited for what my artistic voice is, because it's me. More "me" than what I've been trying to find.

In high school I did art. I was in AP for two years and did art because I was "gifted" or had "artistic instinct." I had (and still have, I think) an eye for color theory and line, so I did what was natural- I drew. I knew I liked the equine form, and that was it. My voice was minimal and I created what I had to for AP credit: what pleased the eye. And I think I'm done with that.



So new username, not to bid farewell to the old Mary, because I'm still here. I'm still that horse-crazy chic, and there will still be a LOT of equine art in the future. It may not be as often, or as technically similar to what I've done, but I'm excited. Sometimes change is wonderful.


-m


"When we were younger
We thought everyone was on our side
Then we grew a little
And romanticized the time I saw
Flowers in your hair

Be in my eye
Be in my heart
By in my eye, eyeyeye
Be in my heart."