NOT a 3 minute blog.
I have detected a flaw in my plan for WD. With the new listing for ‘top ten’ blogs on Artists Talking I now read that judging criteria also includes ‘time spent’ on the page…… hmm I think I might be selling myself a bit short with a 3min scribble…
The most prominant concerns of my time recently have been on how I can cope with a life that is in diametric oppostion to a having a successful career.
Whatever else I try to do I find that this is the essence of what my work is about and it is a hard realisation to find that your life’s work could be conceived as one enormous moan about not getting anything done.
A tricky conundrum. But if the work that you make does not reflect the life that you lead and the ideas in your head – what is the point? it could be made by anybody else.
I have found the MAKING of the work is the key thing to exorcise these struggles from my head and it is a therapy in itself – and perhaps one to prevent myself endlessly feeling frustrated by constraints which are unavoidable.
The MAKING is key to everything. Piles of sketchbooks are fine (which I have by the barrowload) and I am grateful for them, but for my work it is the actual process of labourious slaving over a piece for a considerable time which gives it it’s value.
Without epic time served, stress and strain – it seems unworthy.
