Visions

Featured image: Letting Go

Do you have a vision for your work? For your life? Visions are often misunderstood and unfortunately linked to morals and ethics. Visions can come from religion, politics, social issues, economic and money issues. This is why they are often tied to our morals and ethics.

A vision is just that, a vision and it should be yours alone, not someone else's. Visions are like dreams, which are also your own. As I write this I want to share some of my visions. I have visions of flight, emerging, releasing and freedom. My work centers around these visions. The visions help me when I create them. They are what assist me to ensure that the work visually speaks to you, the viewer of my work, the reader of my musings.

When you look at some of my work, you will see cages, fences, and now boxes, with “things” being released, “things” emerging from them and moving towards “freedom.” There are many works of mine that speak to this vision, “She Emerges” is one.

But here are some others:

Escape 

Entrapment 

The Story 

This list continues, and there are many other examples, so I won’t list them all here. Visit my website to find more. www.christinealfery.com.

But the main idea in this musing is about your visions, and mine, and about releasing them from another’s visions. It is about finding your own vision and then visually expressing them in your work. That is how the viewer can find you in your work.