Jolt of Inspiration

Listening to a podcast about Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the sculptor when inspiration took a very noticable leap.  I constantly listen to various podcasts, read books, surf blogs...all in an effort to re-kindle those rises that I'm sure happen to everyone.  That yeah, that's what I want, I'm going for that today.  Some times it's not the inpiration rise but it's also the departure from the valley - like after watching the PBS documenary "FrontLine: Inside The MeltDown" - I really could have used a lift.

But today, listening to the Augustus Saint-Gaudens story, I had that lift and then that momement of parellel thought - I can do what he did.  Now to even say that out loud may sound crazy and could very well be, but I'm reminded that the sure way to not accomplish something is to believe that you can't.  I'm not planning on carving The Shaw Memorial but I do have something of equivelent - a digital sculpture so-to-speak that I've been working on for almost as many years and I do believe it has similiar potential if I see it through.  Gaudens spent 14 years on that and perhaps that's what gave me that lift - the idea that he needed vision to keep going that long and there is no doubt he had many reasons to stop or finish it as less than what he thought it could be.   

So thanks National Gallery of Art-Behind the Scenes and thanks Augustus Saint-Gaudens for more fuel for the charge.