Wishing Well by Mandy Sue Springer
Here on the Hey, Hot Shot! blog you have seen a handful of contenders. Spending a good amount of time with each entry, most contenders tend to stick with me. Being in the try, try, try again game myself, I always find it helpful to see how others choose to revamp and repackage their work for submission, whether they start fresh with a new body of work, leave just a trace of the previous, or submit the identical twin to their former. During the Winter Edition, I paired the work and words of artist Mandy Sue Springer with some thoughts about the statement, both written and unsaid [see that here]. This round Mandy Sue has a new website where you can see her series Digging for Salamanders along with other photographs, paintings, and mixed media. From her statement:
I used to want to change the world, but I learned that was not going to happen. Instead I had to change my world and find all the beautiful things in the ugly things and fall in love with this new found beauty. I can remember the amazement in finding salamanders under rocks in the creek. I would keep them in buckets for just a little while, but then let them go. Growing up my life was a treasure hunt, and they were just one of the little hidden treasures. I am once more searching for these lost treasures.