Feb 17th. Simplify
Post- Degree. So many blind alleys.
Latest thoughts….simplify. Stop trying. Just BE in the moment. A cliche but hey… cliches are created by simple thruths arrived at by a multitude of minds.
Stop reading, and sometimes writing in contorted, pontificating, pompous art-speak language about future plans. Go back to Hockney’s matter of fact delivery; to Barthes’ poetic beautiful phraseology…. the only two people who can write fluently and well in their own inimitable styles.
Don’t make plans. Just respond …. paint, graphite, charcoal or whatever comes to hand, to life as I see it.
The results will be 90% bland rubbish but the 10% which will ‘work’ will be sufficient reward. The tranquility of not fulfilling expected criteria will be worth everything.
