I'm at an art workshop all weekend, so these are brief. I've been busy making some truly bad stuff. But with work, my piece has gone from truly awful to merely horrible. I will try something new today. The instructor keeps telling me not to think, not to listen to all those voices in my head, but to let my true self come out in the art. I laugh and tell her I don't want my work to look like mine. I want it to look like somebody else's, someone with talent. I'm old enough to disagree with all the inner self stuff. It might be true, but it might not. Postmodern theory that talks of the self as a construction of cultural voices has its own truth, its own appeal. It is all true, the death of self and the old romantic ego. I like it all. But it sure is hard on me to show so little talent.
Yay. For you....truly horrible stuff is awesome
ReplyDeleteyou artistically insecure dork. ( I call our friend that when he starts moaning about the awfulness :read: Goodness he creates too).
Stop thinking. and Do.
I'm envious I wish I was at an art workshop (only in theory though, I'm vastly insecure and know everything I create is about the most hideous stuff yet to see daylight or darkness for that matter and really have a hard to sharing with people - actually it makes me physically ill but...fuck... I keep doing it, masochist that I am).
HAPPY SUNDAY Oh One of So Very Little Talent.
You gotta push the turds out to let the good stuff flow.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what this does to your theory, but I loved your "old" stuff!
ReplyDeleteWhere I live, everybody listens to the voices in their head - they get a check from the government, too. It's not a bad deal :-)
I love all the support. And they have drugs to take away those voices in your head, too.
ReplyDeleteLOL, yeah, but I'll lose my check :-)
ReplyDeleteIf you take away the voices it becomes increasingly difficult to create
ReplyDeletewell at least that's my excuse.
:)