Beaded Elements By Marcellus Kitchens
Beaded elements by Marcellus B.
Kitchens
Welcome to the website of
Marcellus
Kitchens.Here you
will find some of my bead work. I have been
beading for about five years. It all began
with a morning talk show and a fimo
demonstration. I was fascinated by the idea
that I could make my own beads. Since then I
have not done much bead making of any kind
, I guess I will leave that to the experts
My goal for my beadwork is to make simple
but elegant pieces of beadwork that are
useful to the average person. I really do
want people to like what I do.Beadwork is
great because it allows me at to create some
really nice things. We all can develop
technical abilities, and with the right
inspiration, create beaded jewelry that is
beautiful, strong and durable.
The Dream
I would like to share an experience with you,
it is the experience of creativity. About 4
years ago I was working on a bracelet. In
those days there were not many classes on
advanced bead classes in my area. So it was
my habit to buy pieces of beadwork and
try to figure out how they were made. On this
particular project I had figured out how to
make the bracelets but did not like the
pattern on the original and could see what
I did not like about the bracelet but I
could not clearly visualize a better pattern.
This was very frustrating. After many weeks
of fruitless effort, I was no closer to my
goal. Then one night while asleep I dreamed
that I was in a large beautiful
jewelry store and I was there to view some of
my creations, beaded bracelets. There they
were in endless variety they were everything
I wanted my bracelets to be. In my dream I
could touch them, examen them, admire them
but it was as if, even thought they were my
creations, they were not mine. I was there
to
observe the creativity of some other more
creative.intuitive aspect of my own mind.
When
I awoke I was really inspired for a few
minutes then my inspiration turned to anger
when I realized that even though my mind
during that dream had created all of that
beauty, that on a conscious level I would not
be able to create the beauty I had
experienced in my
dream. There was some vague remembrance of my
dream but not enough to clearly guide me in
my conscious creative efforts.
In other dreams I have been amazed by the
plots that rival even some of the best screen
plays...wow!
It is my goal to more directly tap into that
source of creativity within. Day to day I
see
little fleeting glimpses of that inner
creativity my work is the results of those
little glimpses. Watch out when I hit the
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