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Tuesday, June 05, 2007
focus
How focus wavers at times...when something happens in the rest of life (like for example, your 82 year old mother falls and breaks her ankle, and complicated arrangements for care must be made) what happens in the studio? Not much?
For me this was the story of last week. I did manage to finish the painting shown here, Wander, 48"x36", oil on board. I had a deadline of sorts, as Darnell Fine Art in Santa Fe was waiting for a painting of these dimensions from me. Personal issues aside, I felt I had to come through, and to ship them eight other paintings they requested for the summer also. And then there were the four new pieces I took to Circa Gallery in Minneapolis on Thursday, a trip timed so that I could rotate out a few older things needed elsewhere. So I spent a hectic week, running between Pak Mail, DHL (the shipping company I use) and my mother's nursing home, when I wasn't on the road to the Twin Cities.
It's so hard to keep running at that kind of frantic pace, and I'm trying to slow down now, spend a little incubation time and find my focus again. ¶ 1:28 PM
How focus wavers at times...when something happens in the rest of life (like for example, your 82 year old mother falls and breaks her ankle, and complicated arrangements for care must be made) what happens in the studio? Not much?
For me this was the story of last week. I did manage to finish the painting shown here, Wander, 48"x36", oil on board. I had a deadline of sorts, as Darnell Fine Art in Santa Fe was waiting for a painting of these dimensions from me. Personal issues aside, I felt I had to come through, and to ship them eight other paintings they requested for the summer also. And then there were the four new pieces I took to Circa Gallery in Minneapolis on Thursday, a trip timed so that I could rotate out a few older things needed elsewhere. So I spent a hectic week, running between Pak Mail, DHL (the shipping company I use) and my mother's nursing home, when I wasn't on the road to the Twin Cities.
It's so hard to keep running at that kind of frantic pace, and I'm trying to slow down now, spend a little incubation time and find my focus again. ¶ 1:28 PM
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Indeed, life strikes again!
Just reading that made me tired. Hope things let up a bit in the coming weeks (doesn't sound likely), and if not, hopefully you can steal some quiet time for yourself!
Just reading that made me tired. Hope things let up a bit in the coming weeks (doesn't sound likely), and if not, hopefully you can steal some quiet time for yourself!
Thanks...I think the "stealing" part is about right. It's that feeling that time is all booked up by outside forces that is hard. Creative work seems to need a lot of space in which to breathe...
I understand the needs of family and how we 'creatively' work around them. We were caretakers for both mothers at the same time (nearly 20 years, nearby but not in our home) and I could tell some stories! Best wishes for a speedy healing for your mother, bless her heart... and yours too. KJ
It brings up all kinds of time-management issues that are unique to an artist's situation...you don't have a "boss" or a work schedule that is set by others, yet cerainly there are demands, deadlines, expectations. When something like this comes up it's a challenge to make it all work.
Thanks for the good wishes for my mom.
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Thanks for the good wishes for my mom.
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