I haven’t drawn yet today. When I started 13.4.13 – 13.5.13 I worked on the drawings first thing in the morning, on waking, completing my daily creative task before beginning the rest of my day.
By midweek the drawing tasks were being pushed later and later into the day, crowded out by work, family commitments, daily tasks.
On Thursday, I made my drawing at 11.30pm and on Friday I’d fallen asleep early, woke in a panic and got up just after 11.30pm to complete the task. Yesterday I finished my drawing two minutes before going out for the evening.
The act of drawing and making this work has slipped quite quickly alongside the other activities that need to be completed every day.
This task I set myself as a separate act of creativy and significant part of my degree show work has become so part of everydayness that it is pushed and pulled around my waking hours alongside all the other things on my to-do-list.
I like the idea that by the end of the thirty days, the habit of drawing like this will have embedded itself into my daily life, just as the biro is being embedded into the lining paper with lines darkening and broadening as I work over them each day.
