‘Work as if there is no end, fail, reflect, get back into the studio and make more work and fail again, don’t limit your thinking by focusing on the final show because then you will also limit your work. Work as if your brain is divided in two – one half making work with no limitations the other aware that there is a deadline and that you will have to get your work ready for the show at some point.’
This advice was given to us by our tutor Alli Neal back at the beginning of the year and I things its great because it acknowledges the need to focus and work to a deadline as well as understanding that to work creatively we have to move limitations out of the way. This is the precarious balancing act that creatives deal with all the time and its important that we are learning this right now.
I have taking Allis’ advice to the extreme making loads of work that explores a range of outcomes I’m loving it and importantly am bringing previously separate ways of working together in a multidisciplinary way. This is a huge step for me – my work feels more versatile and responsive.
But I have to now think about pulling things together as I acknowledge words from ‘the other half of my brain’ which is telling me that time is running out. I’m stubbornly giving myself a few more weeks of working expansively before I have to recap on my work and focus my ideas. Just don’t want this wonderful ‘play-time’ to end!
