by Anne Truitt
First published 2013
Anne Truitt opens her journal determined to understand what drives her creative work. Over seven years, she documents the constant pull between studio time and family responsibilities. She writes about growing up on Maryland's eastern shore, abandoning psychology for art, and developing sculptures that liberate color in three dimensions. Truitt records conversations with fellow artists, watches her daughters become mothers, and wrestles with criticism and isolation. She searches for ways to express her artistic vision while managing household duties and caring for children and friends. Her entries move between the concrete world of daily obligations and the abstract realm of color and geometric forms that consume her artistic imagination. Through honest self-examination, Truitt reveals how creative work demands both solitude and engagement with life's practical demands.
Genres: biography, art, autobiography, memoir
Vibes: intimate, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, self-examination
Setting: Maryland, Eastern Shore
Period: 20th-Century
256 pages · Paperback · Scribner