Artsy Thoughts

It's been a productive and emotionally whirling week. Here's a discarded draft of a photograph I'm working on in my series. The momentum behind my project is building like the movement of the skirt of this dress. Locations, props, people, dots - it's all combining with energy that gives me hope.

But why this blog title?  Well. I just have to say how much I loathe the word "artsy." It's an adjective that makes me go eeewww, makes me cringe. Lately I've been described as artsy, and I know it's been done with affection, but it rattles my cage. Is it because I hear that echo, that rhyme...artsy fartsy? Maybe. Or maybe it's just sounds diminutive, dismissive, maybe a little too cutesy.