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Art meeting

5/3/2016

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​Today I met with my artist friends to discuss the rest of Chapter 1.


​Fearless Creating

Ch 1: Section 13-15, pg. 34-39

Reading:
(Pg.39) I will do important, hard work. I will create, no matter what! 
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Exercise: Tameness and Wildness Together

Constructive wildness
Craving for Drama - I strive to make a striking and gut-wrenching experience...one that haunts people in their sleep.

Rebellion - I do not want to paint landscape paintings even though they may sell well. I want to create a fresh and difficult experience. "My goal is not to appease and comfort, but rather to agitate and illuminate places that are usually left unexplored."

Sheer energy - I use my fears, sadness, and anger to motivate me. I get excited by my own work.

Destructive wildness
Sheer energy - I get swept up in the energy to the point that I cannot stop to eat or sleep. My mind becomes unfocused and easily distracted.

OCD - I get caught up in perfection instead of allowing happy mistakes to happen. I become so focused that I ignore rich side projects. I will spend inordinate amounts of time on extremely small details that may not matter to the whole. For example, cutting tiny squares.

OCD - When I discover a new medium, I hoard on it, which creates boxes and boxes of clutter in my studio.

Constructive tameness
- I make “to do” lists and check items off as I go.
- I keep myself organized with summary sheets and inspiration binders.
- I create a blog that keeps track of my progress and reminds me that I spend a lot of my life creating.
- I honor an extremely low budget by having control. Instead of buying items, I construct them myself.

Destructive tameness
- I become so focused on my plan, I don’t allow myself to play and experiment freely.
- I’m overly modest, instead of celebrating my creativeness.
- I over-intellectualize my work to attempt to make it fit into the “art world”.
- I criticize my own work too harshly.

Wildness and tameness in dynamic balance
- When arriving at my studio, sit quietly for 2 minutes. Then review my “to do” list and begin.
- Take time before leaving for my studio, to pack a fulfilling lunch complete with healthy snacks.


Goals for this week:
  1. Peruse 3 Sculpture magazines - completed
  2. Do another test with crackle pastes - completed
  3. Research how to sharpen a knife with a curved blade - completed
  4. Cut out pieces for second version of armband - completed

Goals for next week:
  1. Update MDR project in website
  2. Research artists in folder
  3. Apply crackle medium to headrest
  4. Finish box for casting medication pill
  5. Enter new AIR and grant information into spreadsheet
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    • Breath Body
    • Vanitas Painting
    • Legs Painting
    • Silhouettes
    • Mourning Armbands
    • Mourning Pins
    • Delightful Way
    • Rx Tablets
  • FUTURE ART
    • Mourning Handkerchiefs
    • Willow Wallpaper
    • MercuroChrome Paintings
    • Hang Your Heart
    • Mini Eye Portraits
    • Gold Trocar
    • Mortality Staff
    • Black Substrate
    • Body Supports
    • Body Positioner
    • Hand Holder
    • A/V
    • Glass Body
    • Self-Portrait
    • Scrying Mirror
    • Hospital Gown
  • FINISHED ART
    • EXHIBITED
    • Transition
    • I Transition I
  • CONTACT