2011
This type of experiential feedback process is similar to looking at mini clustering processes that some writer's use. Drawing, writing, composing music evokes a particular aspect of one's life content, and unfolds within it's own contexts. Distinctive systems, rhythms, style, movement and inner dialogue takes place between you and the work.
2011
A sketchbook is like a 'pressure release system'. When struggling with direction and ideas, returning to these diaries help me reconnect and become inspired by my own ideas.
2011
These particular sketches represent a majority of the January entries which have been showing up consistently throughout the visual diaries. The cylinder and circular forms. The impulse to play between circles and grid based content come and go.
Below are older paintings asking me to return for a closer look evoked by the current sketches. The separating of elements, even though gestures are small in the sketchbooks, motivates me to explore what is going on. Looking at these two previous paintings generates an inner dialogue and extends the range and possibilities of the next move -- giving me a subtle satisfactory nod toward consistent content.
2006
2006
Sometimes anxiety and self-doubt plagues the artist most often than not. If you procrastinate and only think about making work, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.
I work at flowing around every obstacle I encounter as an artist. This self-explorative process is a large part of my interest in making art and maintaining a healthy mental state of mind. So, for every mood swing or a shift in execution, keep updating your plan with a process that works for you.
The artist dreams of works of breadth; but limited
by her personality and the nature of her medium,
limited by inner disturbances and loss of purpose,
she often works more narrowly than she's intended...
__ Eric Maisel
