It’s a crazy situation, but all I need are cigarettes and alcohol.
Today I have ordered a load of photos from Snapfish, against popular belief I have kept records, in the form of photographs, of all the work I have been doing within my studio space. The photos will be used to assemble a photo sketchbook that I will write notes in explaining every stage of my thought and making processes. I don’t really keep sketchbooks, I know this is something that shocks and appals the members of the art world, maybe one day I will change my practice, but when I get an idea I tend to make it straight away, whether it’s in mock up form or complete form. Yes I do end up with a hell of a lot of models or completed works lying around but I have a tendency, you may have noticed, of leaving things to the last minute, so if I gave all my time to sketchbook work then I don’t think I would ever have anything made. I do however acknowledge the use of a sketchbook for jotting down and exploring ideas, I just tend not to use it.
Is this wrong of me?
Should I be exploring all possibilities in some form of a document in order to get to a final product or does trial and error work just as well?
I don’t feel it hiders my practice, I went for years jotting notes and keeping sketchbooks and in the end I was just left with a book of confusion with hardly none of what I had written or drawn actually making it to see the light of day, at least with thinking and doing I am exploring the creation of work physically, taking problems on as they arise and creating works one after another instead of locking them away in the form of a doodle.
