Why do I always do this, start one thing and have to have another project happening at the same time? Henry Samelson , in his blog, calls it having a Buddy of Work, or work you do alongside of your main preoccupation at the time. Trouble is my preoccupation seems to be divided down the middle. I tell myself "pick a lane road warrior" (a line from a Frasier episode).
I'm sitting here now between a wall full of paintings in the"weathering realities" series and, on the other side of the room, two of the oil paintings on old paintings with an old painting waiting on the easel to be set upon.
Two, of a large number of oil paintings, behind and on the floor. An old landscape I'm painting over on the easel. |
Just a few of the many many paintings in the 'weathering realities' series |
I'm not finished either series yet. I want to continue for a while before I start deliberately looking for venues, although I've already had an online show of some of the weathering realities series. It came my way, I didn't seek it out and if something comes my way I would consider showing some of this work again.
Do I have to choose a lane? What does it mean if I don't? How do I present them? Do I look for shows of the two separate bodies, or do I look to show them together? Am I just a flounderer in the shallows of art? Maybe you shouldn't answer that, it might crush me.
Only you can decide where to steer in all of this, but if you're thinking of who you are as an artist it's all of the above, but your latest contempory piece on Instagram is so unique to you and I love it.
ReplyDeleteJust seeing this now Trudy. Thanks. I'm hoping it's all true to me. All I know is I keep on making things, can't seem to stop. :)
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