I have been off from my various jobs as a standardized patient* for about two weeks and have very sparse work for the next couple of months. I am in heaven. I love my job a but I love creating art MORE.

I think it is an obsession. After all, I come by it wisely. Both my parents had obsessive compulsive disorder and my father had bipolar disorder on top of that. I inherited both. As one of my professors in graduate school told me, “What a great combination for getting shit done!” Yes, it is!

So with time off, I have been maniacally, happily, obsessively creating MORE art! My mantra, “I need to make MORE art, so I can sell MORE art, so I can buy MORE supplies to make MORE art, so I can sell MORE art, so I can buy MORE supplies so I can make MORE art to…….” Get the picture?

My Dad was just as obsessive every year during shrimp season about catching shrimp with his little shrimp boat. His mantra was, “I need to catch MORE shrimp, to sell MORE shrimp, to buy MORE gasoline to catch MORE shrimp to…..” Like father, like daughter.

I am mostly working on stained glass objects and wacky clocks. As my skill level rises so does my sense of imagination of what I can create. I easily tire of the things I have made and abandon old ideas and products (some quite successful and others just plain “butt ugly”, and move on to other brilliant ideas and designs. As least I think they are brilliant at the time. I may seem like a factory and that I am, but I rarely make the same things. One idea spawns another and I am off and running to make MORE.

Each day, I give birth to several new pieces of art and am the happiest when I am doing just that. Just like you can never have enough shoes, you can never create too much art. There is always MORE.

*A Standardized Patient (SP) is a person carefully recruited and trained to take on the characteristics of a real patient thereby affording the student an opportunity to learn and to be evaluated on learned skills in a simulated clinical environment.