I am currently in that horrible limbo time, the time when procrastination strikes heavily, between projects – the time when it is so easy to phaff the days away in indecision – what is it exactly that I am going to make next?
Much as I hate it, I think I get a lot more done under extreme pressure. This is not really good for anyone as everything falls apart when I have a project deadline. However when there is no pressure nothing ever quite gets finished.
I have a very large collection of ‘unfinisheds’ and could very easily fill a substantial gallery (my choice is the Hayward if any curators are reading…) with work that is just a little unresolved.
So the big questions of the day are: do I finish a few unfinisheds? (the responsible option) or do I forge on with all the exciting new ideas I have in my bulging sketchbooks? (this one, this one!) Which idea will be the one to make me rich and famous? How do I choose?
I am considering using a ‘hands of fate’ option in decision making (perhaps a bit of a cop-out in avoiding the responsiblitiy of making the wrong selection) by getting a pack of blank index cards and writing an idea on each one. Then it is just a question of ‘find the lady’.
My fear from this approach is that I will just end up with the old boot of card tricks – ‘the 52 card pick up’.
