I've been thinking about all these new ideas of things to make ad do with how I show my work and my self and I think my soul wants and needs more then what I have been doing so I hope this show is the beginning of new things. I have been pulling out a bunch of old records like and I feel inspired to be a Afrofuturist. I think it will be fun to be a dreadlock Fin from Star Wars.
Fear is what you do when ou can't fight and I'm going to fight forever.
glass42:
For YOUR sanity, I think it's great that YOU know when you are through with something and then move on. It would be incredibly unfortunate to succumb to the comfort of staying with a subject or style that you have tired of. A clay artist in my community was very popular for his glazed clay steam engine trains. They are wonderful (I have one. Of the 80 or 90 pieces of art in my home, it is one of my favorites and it will always be out on display.). They were his most successful work and also became his most frustrating legacy. He kept trying to move on to other subjects and techniques but commissions (as in the money to pay bills) were almost always requests for more trains. His most well known work was, for him, a mixture of love, pride and regret.
jaws318:
@glass42 Thank you, fo always seeing passed my panic. These last few shows have put me a little on edge. I didn't realise how much until this afternoon with my wife. I made a bunch of mixtape prints and cut my hand cutting them with this paper chopping blade and didn't even react. I'm fine but I don't even feel it. Part of me is shut off from it in the midst of making. I remember in art school we would always call it "going full Van Gogh/ Jackson Pollock." It feels silly to fear the idea that one day I will make something so good it will haunt me and yet I do. I don't feel too humble to admit that. I will get lost in making for hours and waking up sort of from it to go to bed and start over the next day. I want that feeling of being completely wrung out by it. I never feel like I'm making enough when I see my heroes make thing while I sleep. I'm not sure how to attack the situation.