...so I wrote a post for this image awhile ago on my portraiture blog, and you are more than welcome to read it...but I wanted to share the image here, as a reminder to myself that I am working on showing up for myself...because I'm still struggling with my perfectionism, unreasonably so. I could tell you a story about my getting ridiculously discouraged after 4 tries on a new idea, but the truth is, the specifics don't actually matter...it's the fact that I seem to have this amazing ability to forget that I've been through this - the initial enthusiasm, the exploration, then almost immediate discouragement and "I SUCK" conclusion when my outcomes don't match my ambitions - every single time it happens. Every. Singe. Flipping. Time. Even when I end up creating something kind-of beautiful....because it's not "perfect" - whatever that even is.
How is it that I can tell a certain beloved young creature that all artists deal with frustration, with the gap between the vision and the execution, and mean it - and then not be able to internalize it for myself?
What's with that?
27 July 2011
26 July 2011
It's been a long time...
...but I'm ready to start blogging as "me" again (I've been here for the past few years). I've finally started creating art for myself again, and I think I'm ready to share it. So, um, hi! :-) I haven't shot any of my recent stuff yet, but will soon, I promise. For now, here's a shot of a post-blueberrying travel-log from a few summers ago!
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