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I use to host my blog and web site on a different host, however i wanted to consolidate all of my sites on one host. I also decided to move this blog to wordpress platform from moveable type, so please bear with me as I get my theme looking more like my site plus i need to figure out how to get my photos/pictures back. if you are interested, i also have a food blog called fromthefryingpan.com, check it out! Art and art projects are always an ebb and flow for me, sometimes I get stuck in the eddies of life. The flow can be unpredictable and intangible not unlike the creative process. What might happen to the ever fractioned world that I seem to be living? The online presence, home life, inter personal relationships, work life, etc. all have a pull that is not currently beneficial to the overall creative process. De-fractioning life and pushing things back together as they once were must be the focus of living, only adding things that can fit such a model of being…
Finding balance… Enjoying the things… Removing the others… Writing to find… Organizing for sanity… Exploring to renew… Creating for joy… Encouraging to teach… Reaching out for help… Solitude to recharge… I wanted to take a continuing studies class at MCAD this fall, something like print making or the like. Sadly the idea came to me to late and registration for fall was closed so I think I will start going to the open drawing co-op that they hold on Mondays. I think it will be good to start to draw from life every week and redevelop some of those skills that I know have gotten rusty. It is on Monday nights and is open to the public but it has no “instruction” however there is a faculty member on site to help pose the model and set time frames and stuff.
Not sure if there will be a major goal in mind for the co-op besides going out, drawing on a regular basis, improving skills and having fun. What more is there at the moment? It will help get back into a working mind set for this winter when I will pick up a formal class.
This weekend was not quite as productive as I was hoping. I did get some things done and feel good about what I did get done but I learned a bit about what has been holding be back. I will be writing about my ideas of artistic blocks soon but for now I want to focus on what I found I was doing or not doing and what was actually accomplished. Let’s start with the good news, I did a drawing with a little bit of watercolor in my deconstructing the box sketchbook. Nice to get some real drawing from life done! I spent about a half an hour drawing a head of garlic and it turned out nice. In hind sight I think I should have warmed up with some gestures drawings, next drawing session I will include at least ten quick drawing. Setting up a sketch book just for that will be helpful.
Now to lessons learned, I have a feeling this will be hard to write but here it goes. Biggest problem is distraction, or allowing myself to be distracted. Everything from internet to dishes seems to distract me at the moment. I tried to get most of the stuff I feel I need to do before I start my art making but there always seems to be more to do. I am not sure if this is procrastinating ploy or I just am being A.D.D. or what. I have a feeling it is a bit of both. Problem is I don’t have a neutral place to create art at the moment. I also find myself wanting to do to much at one time, gets overwhelming and paralyzing when that happens. I need to look at the task at hand an run with it until I need to move on. Work on a piece until it tells me it needs to live and only then move on to other projects. I think work is the culprate that gives me this problem because I am always multi tasking at work, putting out fires and doing things that need to get done There is more but I think I will leave it at that for now, more fodder for future posts! I am realizing that I have been saying a lot about what I want to do, not what I have done or am doing. This will be changing as soon as the next post. I started some interesting new works today and got some stuff and ideas for more works to come soon! I feel like I have all these ideas but no time or energy to follow through, but I am now changing some life style stuff to make it more conducive to
So I was going to state what is in the pick then I thought better of it so wait and you shall see! I thought I had a lot to say today, apparently work had other thoughts and make all my thoughts dribble out of my head through my ear and it is now all puddling up on the floor. (this was writen on Thursday) With that said, I am trying to have more quiet time lately, especially in the morning. I am making a point of not turning on the radio, which can be a huge distraction and directs my thoughts to the stories that are being covered, yes, I usually listen to talk radio (
I do bounce around a lot though, it is a problem I have and I have talked a lot about it over the years, that one word that is ever allusive “focus”… I guess I get bored easily and find myself jumping around. Even this post seems to be all over. I am curious though, what do you think about? It’s been to long since I made it into the studio even though I have a few projects in mid creation I also have an exciting concept for a series that I need to start on soon, I should flush out the ideas a bit more and maybe start working on some studies. So his weekend I am planning on hitting some of these projects with the goal of finishing the small nude I am working on, flush out and start the studies that I just mentioned. This means I will have to prep today so everything is clean and I can just jump into these projects, I get way to distracted when there is a mess.
Could this be a part of the “play” concept of an earlier post? Yes, however, with a different focus and purpose behind it. It seems more formal form of play perhaps. For the artist it is the use of new tools to archive your goal perhaps? Or better yet, use of old tools in new ways. I have been looking at the world and wondering how to translate what I see and feel into the exploriment concept. I am quickly finding out that it cannot be just one thing, idea, goal, work, event but a clan of ideas and techniques. In other words, it’s not just line or shape or word, but a combination of all of these and more at the same time or in conjunction with one and other, maybe even in different places and times but all tied back to the central concept. In relation to the concept, I feel there should be a “public” aspect of this. How so? I have ideas, will have to exploriment about it! Free form writing/ doodling/ creating might be a good starting place to start. </exploriment> I got a call a few weeks ago from MCAD, my alma-meter, I naturally thought they were doing some fund raising since I have gotten many calls for donations from them in the past. Well, the conversation got a bit strange quite quickly, the dude said, “I wanted to call you before I sent out the invitation to you” I am like, invitation? “Wanted to give you a heads up so you know what this is all about” interest piqued at this point… The long and short of it, MCAD holds an art sale every November for sale of art from students and recent alumni as a fund raiser for both the college and students. There are a bunch of people that support the art sale and go every year and buy lots of art aka. spend a lot of dough. Well the college is throwing these dedicated and well off supporters a thank you event at a major art collector’s house to say thanks. This collector who is hosting this event has bought a lot of art from the art sales, and MCAD was inviting a hand full of artist that is in his collection from the art sale to be present, and I am one of them. Fuck, I am one of them. I feel honored first that I am a part of his collection and even more honored that I was invited to this event, fuck that is cool! I am a bit freaked out and I have no idea which piece he has but I am vary exited to go and rub elbows with art lovers from around the cities and see a long ago sold piece of art! I think I will live tweet this event so if you are interested follow me at twitter (user name pexa link http://twitter.com/#!/pexa ) if nothing else I will be posting another post with more details! After weekends like the last few, I have come to the conclusion that I NEED to funnel all my frustrations into my art work, nothing new to art and artist I know but I need to refocus this energy that has been holding me back to create more relative and interesting art. Life has thrown a lot at me in the last half decade, fodder for inspiration (good and bad) to focus on. Words to describe what I am talking about are not important at the moment. They will be, I have a feeling, soon as I contemplate the direction and strategy that I am going to take. There a growing need, verging on a desperate need in me to get these emotions out that is positive for me. Positive may also mean painful as these issues are not simple to deal with. Is there a genre of memoir art? The liking of the novel but memoir through the use of art alone, believe me I know art has a lot of personal reflection of the individual artist but what about really looking at the creation of art as memoir in itself? This might be a concept I explore within the greater context of this new project.
Some themes that will surely come up are disease, alcohol and alcoholism, dyeing, coping with abuse (inflicted by self and others), social awkwardness, self esteem, love, obsession, other stuff and a combination there of. (mind is flowing with ideas at the moment, excuse me as brain starts to explode over everything, god what a mess)
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