My Ponderings

These pages are a process of my thoughts. i write to try and understand art, religion and philosophy, to better inform my own art practice. It is a way of uncovering who i am and identifying where i fit in the world of art.

Monday, February 27, 2006

Change Stimulates Inspiration

this is what ive decided.

And the change can be big or it can be small.
I like change, i think it is good, it keeps me from getting stuck ina rut
or ina routine, i like routine for a while, but certainly not for too long.
I would go out of my way to break a routine if it ended up going longer than a couple of weeks.
but like i said the change can be small, as small as going to the theater to get some visual stimulation. or going to a forum where issues are being discussed so your brain starts thinking of something other than what you are working on at the time.

My thinking tends to always be focused on my art making, research for what im currently making or ideas for what i can make next. Generally i wouldnt do anything just for one thing, a lot of my thinking overlaps, this was born out of the art school structure, and i think it is healthy. take a concept and run with for each subject. Let your studio work be what everything is revovled around, let your drawing priject develop your studio, let your theory paper inform your conceptual theories. everything overlaps. ive taken this structure and applied it to everything else in ym life. now that i think about it i think it was already likethat to a degree, but now its more considered. ill sew to make a hoodie, bu il also sew to get better at sewing so when the time comes for wearable arts ill have a high enough quality. if i was just to sew to make the hoody i probably would never get around to it. I'll run to get fit, something i would never do if that was the only reason, but my alterior motive is to be fit so i can dance and sing att he same time without being out of breath. I'll struggle away trying to play guitar, so that it helps me to write music, and ill do some creative writing, so that im better able to write lyrics, and gradually i mix the two and still struggle trying to create something brilliant in the hope that one day it will just happen naturally, but not just for the sakeof it, im doing it to when the time comes i can launch into the big dreams i have, that i was talking about last post which stil will not divulge.
one because i think to divulge in this way would just not to justice to the magnificence of it. or would fail to portry my excitement for it.

i cant remember where it was i started
ahhh change....
doing something for too long takes the fun out of it. so i say stop as soon as it starts to get tedious and break for a while dosomething else, maybe change location, could go to the cafe down the street, or to the beach, or to the other side of the world in mycase.
Ithink at the time i really was needing to get out of dunedin in order to find some creative inspiration from somewhere else and i really have i am so blessed to have had that truly awesome experience in singapore and now to be in europe i am having so many ideas and im getting a lot of workdone because, i have little friends and no other commitments so i fill my time in with work, there are a lot of hours in the day to fill. but im doing very well, i keep getting more and more inspiration.
going to church realy feeds that inspiration and seeing the art history of europe and the cathedrals. but i cant do one thing for too long, thats why im advocating that change stimulates inspiration. if iwas to draw,for example, fortoo long how tired i would get of it quickly, but if i break to play guitar or sing i am soon back to drawing with the same enthusiasm.

Utrecht really isnt that inspiring, it is dreary here, and cold, i am truly settled into this place and have establised a loose routine which i am going to break very soon by going to germany for a week. to do some 'research'. so im working hard now to expend all my ideasthat i already have so in a coupl of weeks i can gothere with an empty well and it will fill right to the top again. what a brilliant way to work:)

that is all

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