https://www.emilywligonart.com/musings daily 0.75 2024-09-17 https://www.emilywligonart.com/musings/27er3atidyoli5vdcf4gs3erc32dq9 monthly 0.5 2024-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/d80b013b-d4a9-48ea-ba4e-273f83acf565/Fall+Arts+Fair+2024+Oct+5.png Musings - A Gratitude Shout-Out! - Make it stand out Fall Arts Fair Flyer, October 5th from 10am to 5pm at Fred Fletcher Park in Raleigh, NC. https://www.emilywligonart.com/musings/the-luxury-of-time monthly 0.5 2024-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/68e3c310-7705-46a0-a58a-a9715739a557/IMG_3063.jpg Musings - The Luxury of Time - Glazing Finished and In Process Then, there’s glazing: it takes so much more time that you think it will. Always. When you brush on glazes, there are layers that need to dry before going to the next coat. If I had to stop before I finished a piece or a section, I needed to remember where I was and what I was doing. This isn’t a problem if I’m coming back to the piece in the next few days. But if I’m not…. And that brings me to a recent experience: I was at the studio for two hours, and that was the time I had to glaze. I could have extended it to two and a half hours because the studio wasn’t closing until then, but I had a hard stop. I glazed my crow/raven and my ergonomic owl. I had two more pieces with me, a penguin and a bear. I went ahead and glazed the penguin's feet and beak. Then, I stopped to look at the clock. 20 minutes left, not enough time to finish three coats on anything, at least not without a hairdryer and rushing to pack up. So I didn’t do it. I stopped. https://www.emilywligonart.com/musings/my-love-hate-relationship-with-templates monthly 0.5 2024-08-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1724174473224-WPBHIFGGE5Y42H1QMKW7/IMG_3016.jpeg Musings - My love-hate relationship with templates - Sketch of Hand with Forms Identified https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1724174476907-45BUHJ5NK9G2TOHNNGWX/IMG_1718.jpeg Musings - My love-hate relationship with templates - Finished Hand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1724174509098-SP5WP9E59O25UHYSPP5C/Screenshot+2024-08-19+at+11.24.10%E2%80%AFAM.png Musings - My love-hate relationship with templates - Sketch of Broken Spoons with Forms https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1724174550352-TPSLN7A065RMI970AOZY/P+Broken+Spoons.jpeg Musings - My love-hate relationship with templates - Broken Spoons Final https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1724080774334-JDP3Y9XU9DYFAZATEH9M/IMG_3014.jpeg Musings - My love-hate relationship with templates - Sketch of Mythic River Planning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1724080755204-TQ666N07LO2AFKODHBRO/IMG_0978.jpeg Musings - My love-hate relationship with templates - Mythic River Painting Mythic River, 12 x 12 Oil on Enameled Aluminum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1724174121513-O8SD96PZ5NVHVXIQA8S7/IMG_3019.jpeg Musings - My love-hate relationship with templates - Gnome Template and Gnomes Image of two gnomes and the template for the gnome body, hat, and hat brim. https://www.emilywligonart.com/musings/ppt60zhu2ox64q7fy4va8xjb6lvl0u monthly 0.5 2024-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/2f5d4d9b-889c-4e19-8b43-27f1f6956105/IMG_1150.jpeg Musings - The Pottery Poop Emoji Explained - Laughing at the tiny Santa Hat on the most recent Christmas Poop Emoji All of these conversations were filled with joy and laughter. And that’s why I continue to make them and think about them. Because they bring joy to my favorite people. And I continue to grow and develop how I make them. At this point, I have a basic template (a blog post for another day), and I’m signed up for a coiling class in the late fall. As a result, the poop emoji will continue to evolve as I learn new techniques and take time in my craft. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1722876356024-8JE0H2SUPBSQIFHXTUF5/IMG_0170.jpeg Musings - The Pottery Poop Emoji Explained https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1722876433690-BZ735YNKJIB8HD8DRBH5/IMG_1596.jpeg Musings - The Pottery Poop Emoji Explained https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1722876472417-F85NAS1JF8HN72OZLCKM/IMG_2531.jpeg Musings - The Pottery Poop Emoji Explained https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1722876527871-MCDPCC5XFB2PMAE31P5M/IMG_2127.jpeg Musings - The Pottery Poop Emoji Explained https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1722876527870-KJVPV9ECDBL88700H48A/IMG_2128.jpeg Musings - The Pottery Poop Emoji Explained https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/7085ab42-6951-43c3-a533-f1af8c6b70b3/IMG_1021.jpeg Musings - The Pottery Poop Emoji Explained - The first pottery poop emoji In talking about what I was doing with my husband and kids, we started joking about the clay I was using (brown in color) and what I could make. And what better silly and juvenile way to think about brown clay stacked up than picturing a poop emoji. It sent the family into fits of laughter, my husband especially. So, for the first holiday after starting pottery, I made him a poop emoji. It wasn’t made from coils. I still haven’t mastered that skill. Instead I cut strips of clay and created circles that I attached on top of each other. And then I added some eyes and a mouth and voila, a poop emoji holiday gift. He found this immensely entertaining and started showing it off to his colleagues and friends. https://www.emilywligonart.com/musings/disability-pride-month monthly 0.5 2024-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1722005596408-UP9AQXXMRD7UGG0BH7S6/IMG_2759.jpg Musings - Disability Pride Month - NC Aquariums 2024 We rented a manual wheelchair to go long distances, and my husband pushed me around. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1722005490814-99PY3NJGNZTN0I4F7L1W/IMG_1020.jpeg Musings - Disability Pride Month - Universal Studios 2023 Riding around Universal Studios on my scooter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1722005497053-3KUWV5ULRO0BJJHE91BI/IMG_6472.jpeg Musings - Disability Pride Month - Hiking in Colorado Taking my first solo trip to Denver. A friend took me to the foothills where I did a short hike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1722005496561-61LCTOMLL2Y0ZTGGSIF1/IMG_6458.jpeg Musings - Disability Pride Month - MeowWolf in Denver I took my wheelchair/rollator to Denver because I was concerned my wheelchair would get damaged on the plane and it was expensive to rent one. I switched between walking and getting pushed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1722006705455-91HXEJ59FBL79PRDI64V/IMG_0121.jpg Musings - Disability Pride Month - Halloween 2022 I took my wheelchair trick or treating and ended at the house giving out shots at the end. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1722005500519-5WOQY5VSEP3X75BPYORX/IMG_7658.jpeg Musings - Disability Pride Month - Riding the rides Who says you can't ride the rides anymore? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1722005506300-Z38WSO11VFHOACGFM7BE/IMG_1205.jpeg Musings - Disability Pride Month - Sherpa Scooter My first foray to a theme park post-diagnosis. I was able to get around easily in the scooter and also carried everyone's stuff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1722005506605-B02DOZSKJS1ESO5KPJII/IMG_0872.jpeg Musings - Disability Pride Month - Trick or Treating by Bike I used my electric trike the first Halloween. It was great, but I learned that a powerchair is better. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1722005514239-CYLWAENOIYP7IYYAMHDN/IMG_0616.jpeg Musings - Disability Pride Month - Immersive Van Gogh by Cane We drove over to Charlotte for the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit in 2021, and I explored with my cane. It was the first time I publicly used my cane. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1722005513883-SCZFDEMQ56VEZG9530UV/IMG_0586.jpeg Musings - Disability Pride Month - Ankle Foot Orthotics This AFO helps me with my drop foot by lifting my toes, so I don't stumble as much. Insurance approves 1 for 5 years, so you better make sure it's the right one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1722005519337-XVWXVTQEGJNZGLB5V5L0/IMG_9421.jpeg Musings - Disability Pride Month - Taking pictures in the garden I love my garden, and I used to go out an take pictures of all the different flowers. I don't do that so much anymore as the terrain is dangerous for the mobility impaired. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1722005517872-DMKSOCXD84ZXIN24B1Y7/STUDIO_HBKEYSTO_20181217_414960864113.jpeg Musings - Disability Pride Month - Disney 2018 The before times. I was able to get around Disney on my own two feet, walk with my kiddos. 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That’s how the lizard turned into roadkill. The lizard was a little flat when I made him. It looked like someone had stepped on his body. I decided he needed crossed-eyes, a wiggly tongue, and a wacky tail. Then, I decided I would turn him into roadkill in the glazing process. I had recently taken a carving class, and I thought it would be funny to carve tire marks into him. I went too deep. Now I have this hole in this roadkill lizard. But not all hope was lost—I could add pipe cleaners or something to represent his guts. 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Functional Pottery Short Birch Vase https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/6ab96a19-02d8-49d4-a739-efd0816c74c3/P+Autumn+Plate.jpeg Work - Functional Pottery Autumn Plate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/2b870e05-cff7-4654-b663-5510c7ab92d2/1125+Out+of+Spoons.jpeg Work - Functional Pottery Out of Spoons Cylinder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/b04b94d9-c5cc-48ae-bc6c-f4ef9e665db3/1125+Hedgohog+Love.jpeg Work - Functional Pottery Hedgehog Love Succulent Planter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/73022a68-250c-4f71-8346-4d1b4c897acf/1125+No+Fs.jpeg Work - Functional Pottery No F's Bowl https://www.emilywligonart.com/broken-exhibit daily 0.75 2026-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/9a961768-418e-4a24-bfa7-f013464e9950/A+Hidden+Scars.jpeg Broken Exhibit Alt Description: A human back and head created out of collaged torn up street maps with darker spots located in the brain area and spinal cord. Background is a dark purple and collaged sections are blue, purple, and yellow. This was the first artwork created after my Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis in 2020. MS is an auto-immune disease where lesions (or scars/scleroses) are formed in the brain and spinal cord along the central nervous system and interrupt the signal the brain sends to the different parts of the body telling it what to do. While some people with MS don’t have lesions in their brain, cervical and thoracic spine, MRIs showed lesions in all the areas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/7d4a12f1-6d2c-47ef-aad8-10c5a31ae89d/101024+A+Mountain+Revisited.jpeg Broken Exhibit Mountain Revisited Alt Description: A landscape painting with a river in the foreground, trees and natural areas surround the river as it winds between two mountain ranges with a blue sky. This painting represents the transformation that happens when your identity y changes when diagnosed with a disabling condition. Initially this painting was city scene looking up at towering skyscrapers from the ground. It was not finished, but was an outline of a scene in development. After my diagnosis and accepting my new reality, I turned the painting 90 degrees and transformed the scene into something natural and ever changing. While you can still seem the artifacts of the original scene in the vertical lines, it has become something new altogether, showing that difference is beautiful and just creates a picture with more depth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/99af572c-b2e5-4160-9cd7-dbbfa38fab66/725+Pain.jpg Broken Exhibit Pain Alt Description: A dark purple torso from the base of the head to the top of the hips fill the space. In the middle of the torso, the spinal cord is illuminated in yellow, and the shoulders, right mid-section, and right hip areas are yellow and red. The left outside of the torso is black and the right outside of the torso are white and light blue. As my MS has progressed over time, I have more pain, especially when I do or don’t do certain things. This painting was created at a point in time where I has having more pain than normal. My shoulders are impacted by stress and sitting too long. I also rely on my shoulders to compensate for leg and hip weakness by using a cane and walking sticks to get around. Another symptom that has existed since prior to diagnosis is called a MS Hug, an ironic label for the unrelenting tightness someone an experience in their sides or chest. My hug lives in my right side just under my rib cage to my waist. There is no way to alleviate that tightness, and in my case, is made worse when under stress or feeling fatigue. Moving down the right side, I don’t have control over my hip flexors, so my right leg does not lift more than 1/2 to a 1/4 of an inch. Because of this, my gait is abnormal, and I swing my leg out to walk. This causes pain in my hips and glute as I compensate for this weakness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/73f407a2-9b9b-4052-bb70-28027605b682/A+Interupted+Signals.jpeg Broken Exhibit Alt Description: A leg created out of collaged torn up street maps. The leg is yellow and orange and has a darker red and orange coloring in the foot area. The background is dark purple around the leg and dark red radiating outward. The spinal lesions that I have interrupt the signals to my leg and my foot. The numbness in my right leg just under my knee and my numb toe on my right foot were the initial symptoms that led me to a long diagnosis process that took a year and a half. I went from working out on a regular basis and running multiple miles to not being able to walk a half a mile in the span of a few weeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1724174550352-TPSLN7A065RMI970AOZY/P+Broken+Spoons.jpeg Broken Exhibit Broken Spoons Alt Description: A pair of arms and hands with the hands bending a spoon. Between the arms rest a number of bent and broken spoons. The bottom of the sculpture is black and at the top of the arms hands, the color transitions to white. The spoons are sparkly blue and black. One of the more difficult to understand symptoms of MS and other auto-immune diseases is chronic fatigue. One of the most well-known explanations of fatigue was provided by someone with Lupus who used spoons to demonstrate energy units. This explanation is called Spoon Theory. Each activity completed in a day costs a spoon. Once the number of spoons available to that person are used, they no longer can do anything but rest. The number of spoons varies based on a variety of factors, sleep, temperature, stress, energy expenditure the day before, etc. Fatigue can feel like when you’re sick with the flu or a persistent heaviness in your body. As someone who loved a good house project and always pushed myself to do more at home, work, play, I found that I no longer had the energy and stamina anymore and required medication to help keep me going. This sculpture was a physical representation of how I was running through my spoons at a rate faster than I could recover them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/e5959a9f-2849-4b07-bdcc-8dfa6bfb483f/1125+Broken+Body.jpeg Broken Exhibit Broken Body Alt Description: A body existing in a nebulous field of yellow, pink and blue. The body hangs like a puppet with the right elbow elevated and the left side hanging. The right side of the body and the left arm are shaded with dark colors. As my Multiple Sclerosis progresses, my fatigue and body disability has increased. There are days and times where these symptoms are overwhelming and I no longer feel in control of my body but reliant on the forces around me to function. This painting is an attempt to capture that helplessness on the bad days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/c37661a4-5fa7-4d91-8e4d-7ec7ec274025/A+Losing+Feeling.jpeg Broken Exhibit Alt Description: The bottom of a foot created out of collaged torn up street maps. The foot is varied shades of purple and has a darker purple areas in the big toe and heel. The background is yellow. As I was sitting at a pool on vacation in 2019, the big toe on my right foot went numb. I have not regained feeling there, and I have lost the ability to control it and the rest of my toes. The lesions on my spine led to the numbness and lack of feeling I experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/2ce584b9-91c1-4c69-ab51-8ec8720bd85d/CNS.jpeg Broken Exhibit CNS Alt Description: A bust of a brain and shoulders. The brain and spinal cord are gold and the rest of the bust is black. My first creative outlet was painting, but I had always wanted to do pottery. Once I had been diagnosed with MS, I realized that pottery could be a great way to use my hands in different ways that could support dexterity and strength in my hands and fingers. This bust was an early piece I created to represent the Central Nervous System, the part of my body that is impacted by MS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/03d7b160-93e3-4b78-b5bb-64b2cf2270c2/No+F%27s+Left+to+Give.jpeg Broken Exhibit no f's left to give Alt description: A white bowl with gray sprinkled around the black text in the middle of the bowl that says “no f’s left to give.” There are many times where my patience has been exhausted due to fatigue these days. While I take care to be kind and respectful with all people, when I am empty, I don’t have any “f’s left to give.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/3badb668-2db5-4e07-8e63-2a5200cfa41f/A+Broken.jpeg Broken Exhibit Alt Description: An arm and hand appear in the center of the canvas, the art starting from the bottom. The arm and the hand are made of collaged torn up street maps with dna helixes in the fingers. Above the hand broken in cut out in singular letters. The thumb is black and dripping, and the front tips of each finger are dark purple. The last piece in the collage series, I created a representation of a hidden symptom, a numb left thumb. This symptom would come and go at the beginning of the diagnosis process and become consistently numb over time. This symptom of MS was present on and off before diagnosis and was considered texting thumb or carpal tunnel. After finding out I had MS, I realized this was an early symptom of the disease. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/1275d687-7d9c-400d-902b-40548de2bdc6/725+On+Hold.jpeg Broken Exhibit On Hold Alt Description: Pink, white, and blue swirls burst from a series of white tick lines at the bottom third of the painting. Around the swirls are dots of yellow, white, and pink paint on top of a deep blue background. Underneath the tick lines is a muted reflection of what is above. In the communities of people with chronic illnesses and disabilities, a common challenge is the time cost of dealing with doctors, insurance companies, pharmacies, and other systems where additional effort is required to get something done. I have spent hours of my life since diagnosis waiting on hold for someone as I do what is necessary to take care of my health. With the fatigue and cognitive fog I have resulting from MS, I can’t multitask while waiting on hold. So instead, I let my mind wander and relax. And, when it is time to pay attention again, it takes time to switch contexts to the matter at hand while I shake off where my mind went during those many minutes or hours it took to get someone on the phone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/3f7168c7-fe44-481e-8a0b-6014f52d3d8a/Out+of+Spoons.jpeg Broken Exhibit Out of Spoons Alt description: A white cylinder with a black image of a skull and cross spoons and black text that says “out of spoons.” As my fatigue has increased and my mobility has declined, I find that I run out of energy, or spoons as relayed in spoon theory, much more often and much more quickly. To all my fellow spoonies, I see you and understand what being out of spoons means. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/a4c8595b-1214-4a54-9989-1d548951028a/P+Head+Lesions.jpeg Broken Exhibit Head Lesions Alt Description: A bust of a head and shoulders. On one side eyes and hair are carved into the surface. On the other side is a deep carved area with lines radiating out from that spot. The bust is white and purple. I created this bust to show how a brain lesion can radiate out the the body from a central location. The front of the bust appears “normal” while the back contains the damage impacting the body. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/23cd5e46-3e7e-4cf4-88dc-fa075522c70d/F+Bomb.jpeg Broken Exhibit F Bomb Alt description: A black sphere with a shiny, red “F” on the front. yellow, orange, and red pipe cleaners spark out of the top of the sphere. As I run out of energy and I can’t get out of bed or off the couch to do things I enjoy; as my balance wavers and I fall back down to sitting; as I catch my toe on the ground and stumble; when I realize I forgot something in another room and I have to get back up to get it, I let loose a F Bomb because all these things suck and they’re hard. The language feels appropriate in those instances. Thanks MS - this F Bomb is for you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/8ef79661-185a-4155-95c0-03824b4877d6/My+Dead+Leg.jpeg Broken Exhibit My Dead Leg Alt Description: A leg from mid-thigh to mid-calf that is dark purple with red areas in the knee, left thigh and right calf. The left side of the painting is purple and the right is yellow with the leg radiating into the outside colors. I don’t have control or much feeling except for tightness and spasticity in my right leg. I receive treatment to reduce the tightness in the leg, but it still contracts the more I use it. I have to manually lift and bend this leg, and as it tightens, the pain increases. These issues limit my ability to walk on anything other than a smooth, level surface. My ability to go up and down stairs is greatly limited and can only be done with assistance, whether from a person or a device. This painting was created in a moment of frustration from the challenges My Dead Leg provides. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/664b69f447a18274af7c32e2/7bb23972-69ce-4b57-b7c3-e1224a071921/725+Hidden+Numbness.jpeg Broken Exhibit Hidden Numbness Alt Description: A hand rising from the bottom edge of the painting. The majority of the hand is yellow, but the thumb and next two fingers are black. The black extends down from the thumb and down the arm. The background is purple-red by the blackened fingers and purple-blue by the other fingers and arm. In 2023, I found out that my MS was initially misdiagnosed as Relapsing-Remitting, the most common type of MS, and was Primary Progressive instead. My new neurologist told me that he could not identify any relapses where I had gotten better, or where the symptoms remitted or lessened. Instead, my symptoms were slowly getting worse over time. One of the ways that this progression was manifesting was in my hand numbness. Where I started with my thumb being numb off and on, that numbness has spread, and now my thumb and three fingers are consistently numb now. Because of this numbness in my left fingers, my dexterity has declined. And this will all just continue. https://www.emilywligonart.com/broken-exhibit/acceptance monthly 0.5 2026-01-05 https://www.emilywligonart.com/broken-exhibit/diagnosis monthly 0.5 2026-01-05 https://www.emilywligonart.com/broken-exhibit/progression monthly 0.5 2026-01-05 https://www.emilywligonart.com/broken-exhibit/v/llzsftk3dd7zr3e3fcgcd822bwex58 monthly 0.5 2026-01-05 https://www.emilywligonart.com/broken-exhibit/v/tdr7pghawzngpby2m7jnd44pewgy25 monthly 0.5 2026-01-05 https://www.emilywligonart.com/broken-exhibit/v/5bplw3baskhaj8sa7zgwly3hl3chsx monthly 0.5 2026-01-05