Cheryl Richards: time management

Meet my Time Muse. She is about two inches tall and made from watch pieces, a house key, a pendant, curled fringe and gold ribbon. This is an example of assemblage art. Assemblage is an artistic process. In the visual arts, it consists of making three-dimensional or two-dimensional artistic compositions by putting together found objects. And this is one of my favorite mediums to play in.

I made my little Time Muse when I worked for Marney Makridakis, founder of Artella. Marney founded Artella as a community for creatives to share their ideas, writing and art online and has evolved into a multimedia corporation offering paid online memberships, a free newsletter, an online store of digital images to download, e-courses to jack up your creativity and a life coaching training program called ARTbundance Certificate Training

Last year Marney published her first book "Creating Time-Using Creativity to Reinvent the Clock and Reclaim Your Life" a time management approach for creatives. As she was putting together her book she put out a call to all artists within her creative circles to create pieces of art according to the directions of a variety of her ARTsignments exploring the subject of time. Most of the ARTsignments were developed from her e-course From Here to ARTernity. An ARTsignment is a trademark of Artella Creative Multimedia. Marney defines it as "an art project designed to activate and expand self-awareness and transformation. Each ARTsignment combines a step-by-step introspective process; interactive journal questions; and a unique, hands-on art project."

And thus my Time Muse was born. You can find her on page 42 of "Creating Time-Using Creativity to Reinvent the Clock and Reclaim Your Life"

Guideposts:

passionate - adj. 1. having or showing strong feelings; capable of or susceptible to passion 2. resulting from, expressing, or tending to arouse strong feeling; ardent; intense; impassioned

perceptual abstraction - n. a broad term referring to a reaction against several types of abstract art originating in the 1950s such as hard-edge painting, minimal art and op-art indicating a change from expressive and painterly qualities to an emphasis on clarity and precision based on objective perception. i.e. M. C. Escher

photography - n. the art or process of producing images of objects upon a photosensitive surface by the chemical action of light or other radiant energy

play - v. 1. To amuse oneself 2. To participate in 3. To act frivolously or idle 4. To perform 5. To cause to emit sounds 6. To move lightly, rapidly, or sporadically 7. To make a pretense of being

promote - v. 1. to raise or move (a person) forward to a higher or better position 2. to further the growth or establishment of (something)

prose - n. the ordinary form of written or spoken language without rhyme or meter

My Time Muse