I love the "Keep the motor running, even if it's just on idle. Once the motor gets cold, it is harder to get it back up and running." Recently (like this week) I read that even if you right a paragraph a day, keep it going, something written, every day. I put your motor running quote in my One Line a Day Five Year Memory book for April 9.
I love the Kurt Schwitters quote! I tell my husband that all the time. Let's just make stuff. No one cares. We care. That's good enough. In fact, we can't stop making stuff, it's who we are and it's not about anyone else caring. Sometimes, the stuff is good and sometimes it's meh, but it's the making, and that feels good. Thanks for this piece.
Great timing and really great essay. I SO needed to read this and will again and again. After I finish pieces in the studio, I feel both satisfied and lost, as if I'm losing "it" and have a little panic if I don't have anything else started. There's a clean slate to start something new but I can't get going.....at least right away. I love what you said "Putter on some things." which is what I'll do if I'm in the studio and want to start on something new. I love the word "Putter" which when I'm doing just that.....at first I'll picture myself as an ol' fart just puttering around the studio, picking up objects, playing with them, seeing what or if things go together and keep doing that. Sometimes nothing happens yet there are those moments where something clicks and something begins. If that moment were a Disney movie, there's be sparks, big-eyed birds chirping as they fly around the objects, and heavenly music of harps, flutes and maybe a harmonica and banjo. I respect those times of not producing art even though it feels frustrating. Sometimes a nap will bring on ideas.....some good some not so. But the wheels on the brain go round and round.........
I love the "Keep the motor running, even if it's just on idle. Once the motor gets cold, it is harder to get it back up and running." Recently (like this week) I read that even if you right a paragraph a day, keep it going, something written, every day. I put your motor running quote in my One Line a Day Five Year Memory book for April 9.
I love the Kurt Schwitters quote! I tell my husband that all the time. Let's just make stuff. No one cares. We care. That's good enough. In fact, we can't stop making stuff, it's who we are and it's not about anyone else caring. Sometimes, the stuff is good and sometimes it's meh, but it's the making, and that feels good. Thanks for this piece.
I love a good pivot!
Great timing and really great essay. I SO needed to read this and will again and again. After I finish pieces in the studio, I feel both satisfied and lost, as if I'm losing "it" and have a little panic if I don't have anything else started. There's a clean slate to start something new but I can't get going.....at least right away. I love what you said "Putter on some things." which is what I'll do if I'm in the studio and want to start on something new. I love the word "Putter" which when I'm doing just that.....at first I'll picture myself as an ol' fart just puttering around the studio, picking up objects, playing with them, seeing what or if things go together and keep doing that. Sometimes nothing happens yet there are those moments where something clicks and something begins. If that moment were a Disney movie, there's be sparks, big-eyed birds chirping as they fly around the objects, and heavenly music of harps, flutes and maybe a harmonica and banjo. I respect those times of not producing art even though it feels frustrating. Sometimes a nap will bring on ideas.....some good some not so. But the wheels on the brain go round and round.........
Thanks Annette!