Let it Flow!

Happy New Year to all of you! 
May 2015 bring you happiness, bring less suffering, and lets you live with joy and ease!
I have been busy creating woodcuts over the holidays. However, I am feeling stuck. I am stuck on developing the backgrounds. Woodcuts can be somewhat flat. Mary, my partner, says that they are flat. So, I am looking for backgrounds which are adding depth to my woodcuts.
This has evoked an internal conversation in me about my artwork or how my artwork reflects my life. I always thought of myself as an emotional painter, but have currently chosen a medium that expresses itself very flat. What is happening with me? I have been looking at my anxiety, anxiety I have never felt before in my life. Like a frog sitting on the rim of a boiling pot. Will I jump off? In which direction? Is there a need for being flat at this moment? I have not yet brought the courage up to experiment with different backgrounds. Fear, what kind of fear is holding me back. Mary has giving my for 2015 the word- flow-. Staying in the flow, letting it flow, letting myself flow.

 I  have been using my left hand to cut the woodcuts which has been rather interesting. I have hurt my right should and are not able to cut woodcuts for a while with my right hand. The left hand makes the process slower, more intense. I wonder what kind of affect it will have on my brain? So, you see the holiday session has been a bid of a struggle for me. Let it flow!!