I really enjoyed this exercise because I appreciated the meditative nature of the work. I was noticing that on the whole, the class chose to magnify their letter to fill the majority of the page, which I think was clever considering the water color is effectively impossible to control in small spaces or on wet paper. However, I chose to make mine in miniature scale because I wanted to see what that was like. Aside from having to pick up a lot pigment to thicken the paint for an semblance of control, the focus and energy it takes to work on such a small scale is enormous. It was centering because it was a creative reflective activity, and simultaneously performative because the need for perfection under the understanding that the illumination will be viewed by someone.
