For the most part, I've been trying to
keep the main focus of this blog on the metalwork and jewellery that
Elfworks does. I've been thinking about that lately. With the
limited amount of time I get to spend making such things, it leaves
me, sometimes, with even less to write about.
While I do want that to be the main
focus of the blog, and really, the main focus of what Elfworks is
known for...there are so many other aspects to Elfworks. And in
truth, Elfworks is me...and there is so much more to what I do under
the banner – so should I really keep it limited? Where do you draw
the line between scope and scattered?
I've had lots of advice over the years
about keeping focused – in the blog, in my writing, in my
work...and it is all good advice. But I will never be about just one
thing. Elfworks will never be about just one thing. True, it's main
function is metalwork and jewellery. But it is also wands and ink.
It is wig building, and facial hair building and rentals. It is
theatrical and photographic makeup. It is historical research and
inspiration. It has been bookkeeping, and organization, and general
Girl Friday services. It is becoming workshop courses (yes, they are
coming...slowly.) It is becoming permaculture and all kinds of
things plant. It will be incorporating ceramics into the folds and
layers of it. It has overtones and undercurrents of my spiritual
pathways and my fascinations with myth, literature and nature. It
may well come to encompass the Thanatology services I'm working my
way towards.
Yes, that is scattered...and yet,
there are threads that tie them all together. The main thread being
me. So...my current questioning to myself – do I keep it focused
solely on what Elfworks produces as metalwork and jewellery and the
processes that take me there? Or do I allow it the scope of much
more of what I do? If so, how much scope do I allow so that it
doesn't become scattered? Just where is that metaphorical line, and
will I know if I've crossed it?
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