Saturday, November 25, 2006
Brace Yourselves...
So the art pact is made.
And - as happens with those of us, who master procrastination and bring it to a state-of-the-art level, I haven't done a thing about it yet.
And it's already Saturday afternoon
"But why?", you wonder. "Don't you like to paint?".
Of course I do.
I love it.
Nothing comes even close.
And yet, as a very wise workshop instructor told us, making us all sigh with relief that we are not alone (she had a purple voice):
"We all spend so much time furnishing and accessorizing our studio to perfection -
and then we spend the rest of the time finding all the reasons in the world to not go inside".
How true.
How excruciatingly true.
These two images might give you a better idea as for why I refrain from entering my studio recently, and why The JohnnyB runs away to the horizon with a cry of despair, whenever he passes by the door and forgets to avoid eye-contact.
Now, the greatest catch is this:
Artists are messy.
Well, most of them.
OK, most of us.
But - even the messiest among us, cannot paint in chaos.
You see, chaos seems to be an inevitable bi-product of creation, but we cannot start from chaos. We need to make it ourselves, from scratch, each and every time.
It's kinda like a smoker who's asking for a non-smoking room at the hotel, complaining daintily that "smoking rooms stink so badly!".
Which yields a lot of organizing-cleaning-tidying periods in between sprees of creativity.
Now you understand?
Hence the ArtPact.
And now I shall bravely step into the studio, and turn it into a place where one can actually do some work.
Just to mess it all over again.
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# posted by Nava @ 3:06 PM 
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