I was starting with a puzzle that someone handed to me, completed in a certain fashion.  My task was to take it, rearrange the pieces and still make the picture work.  You stare and you ponder for quite some time before you move that first piece.  But one you start deconstructing, you get a sense of exhilaration that’s hard to match.  Only once you’ve finished with the reconstructing can you sit back and take in all the hard work to get a true sense of what has been accomplished.

Partially I speak of a nice little web site theme I whipped up for South — one of the bands we’re planning to work with as we start to push LimeSpot more into the public eye.  They handed me a PDF of some album cover artwork that I was able to pull apart in Illustrator and reconfigure in Photoshop with a pretty exciting result.  Whoever they tasked to make the artwork in the first place is friggin’ brilliant, I must say.  All I had to do was reach back into my past experience of playing with Colorforms to get all the guidance I needed for the design side of this work.

But I also speak on the puzzle that is my mental image.  As of yesterday, I’m done with my weekly visits to the therapist.  The last year and a half have certainly given me a sea change in the state of my mental health and the overall quality of my life, and I’m quite happy I put in the time I have.  But at least for now, it’s time for me to move on and work more in the field of practice than in the realm of theory.  I’ll probably check in every now and again, but it’s just mental maintenance.  I mean, you don’t have to rebuild the engine in a car every time its time to change the oil, right?

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