Challenge #1 The Fine Art of Being Unruly by Angela Cartwright

I make unruly art…why? Because art to me is an expression of myself…it is meditation, it is discovery.  I like the feeling I can do whatever my spirit moves me to do. There are no rules…if there are some…I break them. Not consciously maybe…but I throw all “the right ways to do something” out the window.  I don’t listen to the little voices, I get in the zone and I just do it…

I color outside the lines…I use water on paper that will ruin it…I use paints on papers that won’t move but stick there…and then I work over it and around it. I use snips of this…and pieces of that… I cut up my photographs and make mosaics…I layer over writing, I don’t second guess myself. I stick glue where it should not go…I rub molding paste around and use gesso to make squiggles and ridges…I find my inner child…with no one looking over my shoulder. …that is making unruly art, and that is the art I make.

The definition of unruly is this….

adj.  un·ru·ly
not submissive or conforming to rule; ungovernable; turbulent; intractable; refractory; lawless:
adj.   un·ru·li·er, un·ru·li·est
Difficult or impossible to discipline, control, or rule.

Are there laws to making art? Is it possible to discipline art? I want my art to be difficult, ungovernable, turbulent. I won’t be submissive or conform to rule…I listen, I learn, and then I reach inside and let it happen. I don’t make art a certain way for others…I make art…because I have to…for me.

My favorite definition in the dictionary of unruly?

"the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly”

I am spirited… and my word to describe myself is unruly....can you find it in my art piece?