Friday, January 22, 2010

fluffy stuff: art & fear part 1



The reading was nice- light and easy. Nothing too intense. A lot of feel-good things about how we're all going through the same things... That being said, I can't remember a time when knowing that someone else had the same problem helped me to solve my own, but it was nice all the same. I'm considering it a think piece because although it did absolutely nothing in the way of helping me figure anything out, it definitely got me thinking about things.

The part about trying to make work that is "our own" stood out to me because I feel like that is something that we are all constantly struggling with- always trying to define ourselves, our space, our work. We exist in this strange place and time when both everything and nothing are simultaneously ours to claim. And this can be very frustrating at times.

My favorite words of wisdom??

"The moment of completion is also, inevitably, a moment of loss- the loss of all the other forms the imagined piece might have taken."


....whoa! Very heavy, Dave & Ted. Very. Heavy.