Tag: difficult

  • My Own Path

    My Own Path

    abstract expressionism, city street, urban, movement, motion, grey, mauve, green, vibrant
    Unnamed Eleven, 2017 — Side Slide :: (click to see more)

    I’m very easily influenced by others and so it’s difficult for me to find my own path. This is true for all aspects of my personality. It can be good when it fires my imagination but it can be bad when it leads to imitation.

    I once read a story about a society that tested and identified child artists and then kept them completely isolated so they could develop their own unique vision not influenced by their predecessors.

    There was a musician who illegally managed to hear some Bach and instantly fell in love. He knew his keepers would discover his transgression unless he was careful so he made certain to omit any influence from Bach in his new compositions. He was however, caught. Unknown to him his music had always had many beautiful similarities to Bach and when they suddenly went missing his keepers knew he had broken the rule.

  • Two Steps Forward

    Like a surfer, I’m still struggling to get past the crest of the wave of tasks I’ve got rolling around under me and I’m determined to do it. I know I could just ignore them and do creative work instead but so much of them are housekeeping items and repairs to things that make my life easier, more efficient and most importantly less stressful. I’m torn.

    I’m going to keep clearing up these tasks with the aim to getting down to creative work next week.

    Its always the case that the stragglers are the most difficult and time intensive to complete. Of course the one critical item for creative work I’m still struggling to complete is colour profile my new replacement monitor with my new replacement laptop and the whole thing has been further complicated with a major operating system upgrade that has required all sorts of updates to all the programs I use. Two steps forward, three steps back.

    I’m just feeling down because I had expected to be done it all by now. Not happening that way. Deep breath, small steps and move on. We’ll see how well I’ve done by next week. Wish me luck.