Photo:  Pam White; Sculpture:  Peggy Kauffman

This is a stage along the way to becoming one of Peggy Kaufman’s bronze sculptures.

I love seeing the clay in its rough form; the way you can feel her hands in the movement.

Being a work-in-progress is unsettling. Accepting the constant folding and refolding, the merciless cuts of the sculptor’s blade, the scratched out words,  images forming and reforming.

When I started this blog, it was to connect to my forthcoming book, Horse Dancing: Artists, the body and the bond between horses and humans.

Now, after working to align my site with Gwen Bell, I am feeling another wave of questions about focus and purpose.

In my experience, work-in-progress demands  intervals of quiet reflection, space, walking around the work and viewing it with a cup of tea from new angles.  Drop the urgency and take a swim.

How are you progressing?