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I'm writing again about my broken arm. I'm still pretty inconvenienced by the whole thing. All the things that I can't do causes too much thinking about for one sitting. I can't brush my hair, or make pencil drawings, right now I need help with about everything. I'm equipped with a hot wax bath, big enough for my whole wrist, and plenty of crushed ice in the fridge, for cold wraps. I have to say I'm in a little bit of a rush, so I admit to continously giving therapy to my arm. Alternating hot and cold, hot to relax and help with pain, and then ice pack will centralize the blood flow, and reduce swelling, then hot again for more stretching. When I first started, the people at the therapy center gave me exact exercise instructions. I’m lucky to have had the advice, and I didn't lose those routines when the gears started changing. There are changing conditions that I can definitely feelbe felt in mythe bones, when the tissues start to redistribute themselves. I think of it as the changing of gears, as in first to second, then third, I can feel the sensations and pain more, andat the same time I also want to reduce my pain killers.killers (I hate taking all the drugs). There is all that complex design in the bones of the wrist and hand, it is where the majority of different bones are proportionally.in Andproportion whento the rest of the body. When nerves get pinched together it feels like dry bones rubbing together.
It really hurts. Sorry about these silly block ads, I wish I could get rid of them.
In my rush to get as much distance as I could I knew that II'd risk feeling some pain. There was no way that the folks at the recovery center can be expected to do all the recovery work. It has to be the commitment of the patient, my commitment. When it starts to make a difference, it starts to hurt more. It's a good pain, that's all I can say about it, I wanted to recover quickly, even if that's what it means. The bones cut together, before there is a chance for the muscles. and other tissues to begin filling in again. So I practice my best judgement and if I think that I'm reaching some kind of plateau I take it easy, for a day or two and work on something else.
I don't remember exactly how long I've been concerned with athletic form, I guess as a high school sophomore while swimming for the team, maybe younger. These days I'm increasingly aware through physical training, and advice from therapists. Overdoing it with a set of muscles can set me back for a week in my work-out-schedule. In youth I didn't care, why should I care about the warm-up or stretching session, I'm older, and it seem so much more important, maybe the most important thing there is for alleviating pains.
I'm also an advocate for working out balanced. What working out balanced means is basically when someone has an injury the tendency is to favor one side, this causes lots of problems especially when this would be crucial during the recovery time for the injury, and what you need the most, is for growth, and healing to resume normally, not crooked. For instance, if you would learn to ride a horse, and you didn't begin balanced, as far as posture, then all the muscles that developed would work to pull a rider off balance which makes the riding more difficult for the horse and the rider. Balance is developed through practicing proper form, and allowing a natural flow of energy.
When you take a pain reliever what happens is the drug blocks signals from the body to the brain, that warn about wear. Since I'm getting started with this I hate to think of hurtinghurt new tissues and muscle.muscle, if I can't feel then how would I know? When I go to my therapist they are impressed when I can say that I've cut down to twice a day, or even once, it's a given that some weeks are more difficult than others, my resolve isn't made of steel. One of the main reasons for cutting down is that, I'm admittedly weak whenand itcan't comesstand topain, chronic pain, andI wnat to take care of the real problem as much as possible, And I've been taking them for so long now. Of course I'm having to think of my stomach now. I never liked pills in the first place, and I'm sure that 800mg of ibuprofen, is enough to melt holes in me after more than a year.
Maybe this is a good time to remind that I used all the physical activities that I'd had done previously, like swimming to encourage my recovery. Doing something familiar, makes it less complicated to keep working on the arm. In my art work I always come back to the routine, it gives me a foundation to work from, and centers my ambition.
I've started some new ceramic pieces:
The meat about my recent work was first explored when I was in college. The dynamic interaction between flat colors was my first chance looking at the subjectivity concerns, when one color interacts with another, and the feeling that they create when I'm working with designs. Many tangent approaches have come into my studies since, sometimes the ideas, and experimentation have extended way beyond what I could have even imagined, but always return to this idea of the dynamic between colors.
My focus for Art is to find a new city, that is what I'm making art about. Buildings on the horizon, and the texture and distance of a withdrawing plane, have all been topics for ceramics. I can contribute, the work I have done has come from what I see , and not from high-brow ideals. I draw what I see, the art in things, as seen in every day occurance things that are often passed by without looking. And I'd emphasize that is more clear in my work than ever before. My reasoning, (why art) it's about subjectivity in my works. Using visual images that I'm observing constantly brings some of its own character to my work and I trust myself at this point to be able to go with the direction of my emotions.
Volumes that I work with, are a lot about cities. I've always felt that I could relate to things fine, in a city, so I began early on traveling, and taking notes as I went along. Those things did much to inspire what I use for artistic material. I've been on the move a lot since so I get a lot of information to sort through. Sometimes it helps to see with a renewed perspective, and finding a different point of view. By moving I intend to re-establish similar routines like I've been using everyday in clay. Galleries...http://katvonac.blogspot.com/M.D. Arts.
It really hurts. Sorry about these silly block ads, I wish I could get rid of them.
In my rush to get as much distance as I could I knew that II'd risk feeling some pain. There was no way that the folks at the recovery center can be expected to do all the recovery work. It has to be the commitment of the patient, my commitment. When it starts to make a difference, it starts to hurt more. It's a good pain, that's all I can say about it, I wanted to recover quickly, even if that's what it means. The bones cut together, before there is a chance for the muscles. and other tissues to begin filling in again. So I practice my best judgement and if I think that I'm reaching some kind of plateau I take it easy, for a day or two and work on something else.
I don't remember exactly how long I've been concerned with athletic form, I guess as a high school sophomore while swimming for the team, maybe younger. These days I'm increasingly aware through physical training, and advice from therapists. Overdoing it with a set of muscles can set me back for a week in my work-out-schedule. In youth I didn't care, why should I care about the warm-up or stretching session, I'm older, and it seem so much more important, maybe the most important thing there is for alleviating pains.
I'm also an advocate for working out balanced. What working out balanced means is basically when someone has an injury the tendency is to favor one side, this causes lots of problems especially when this would be crucial during the recovery time for the injury, and what you need the most, is for growth, and healing to resume normally, not crooked. For instance, if you would learn to ride a horse, and you didn't begin balanced, as far as posture, then all the muscles that developed would work to pull a rider off balance which makes the riding more difficult for the horse and the rider. Balance is developed through practicing proper form, and allowing a natural flow of energy.
When you take a pain reliever what happens is the drug blocks signals from the body to the brain, that warn about wear. Since I'm getting started with this I hate to think of hurtinghurt new tissues and muscle.muscle, if I can't feel then how would I know? When I go to my therapist they are impressed when I can say that I've cut down to twice a day, or even once, it's a given that some weeks are more difficult than others, my resolve isn't made of steel. One of the main reasons for cutting down is that, I'm admittedly weak whenand itcan't comesstand topain, chronic pain, andI wnat to take care of the real problem as much as possible, And I've been taking them for so long now. Of course I'm having to think of my stomach now. I never liked pills in the first place, and I'm sure that 800mg of ibuprofen, is enough to melt holes in me after more than a year.
Maybe this is a good time to remind that I used all the physical activities that I'd had done previously, like swimming to encourage my recovery. Doing something familiar, makes it less complicated to keep working on the arm. In my art work I always come back to the routine, it gives me a foundation to work from, and centers my ambition.
I've started some new ceramic pieces:
The meat about my recent work was first explored when I was in college. The dynamic interaction between flat colors was my first chance looking at the subjectivity concerns, when one color interacts with another, and the feeling that they create when I'm working with designs. Many tangent approaches have come into my studies since, sometimes the ideas, and experimentation have extended way beyond what I could have even imagined, but always return to this idea of the dynamic between colors.
My focus for Art is to find a new city, that is what I'm making art about. Buildings on the horizon, and the texture and distance of a withdrawing plane, have all been topics for ceramics. I can contribute, the work I have done has come from what I see , and not from high-brow ideals. I draw what I see, the art in things, as seen in every day occurance things that are often passed by without looking. And I'd emphasize that is more clear in my work than ever before. My reasoning, (why art) it's about subjectivity in my works. Using visual images that I'm observing constantly brings some of its own character to my work and I trust myself at this point to be able to go with the direction of my emotions.
Volumes that I work with, are a lot about cities. I've always felt that I could relate to things fine, in a city, so I began early on traveling, and taking notes as I went along. Those things did much to inspire what I use for artistic material. I've been on the move a lot since so I get a lot of information to sort through. Sometimes it helps to see with a renewed perspective, and finding a different point of view. By moving I intend to re-establish similar routines like I've been using everyday in clay. Galleries...http://katvonac.blogspot.com/M.D. Arts.
