Tag: artmaking
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Day 459 of 1000: Doing What Matters
The Queen of Pentacles focuses on what is worthwhile, what is precious. What is precious to me right now? Writing and artmaking, and managing the resources to support it.
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Day 458 of 1000: Inspiration, Perspiration, and Desperation
In his writing guide and memoir Plot Twist, author Harlan Coben says that a writer needs inspiration, perspiration, and a desperation to create.
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Day 451 of 1000: Art that Inspires the Creation of Art
Lewis Hyde writes as art as an agent of transformation. How art makes more artists.
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Day 447 of 1000: Focusing on What I Truly enjoy
I’ve found I don’t enjoy entering art shows. But I do enjoy money management. So I’m focused on the latter, not the former.
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Day 444 of 1000: Who Is Art Made For?
My grandmother made art for herself, and for her family. I do the same.
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Day 429 of 1000: What is wealth for?
My wealth allows me to live the life of a full-time artist. My art can inspire other people, even as other artists inspire me.
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Day 91 of 1000: When people don’t understand your art
Why choose to make art that people don’t understand, when it leaves you open to criticism and rejection? Because the alternative is worse.
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Day 71 of 1000: Self-conscious but still creating
Feeling self-conscious about my art, but continuing to create anyway, and doing it in community with other artists.
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DAy 70 of 1000: The emergence of art
Art emerges from ordinary people, working with whatever skill and voice they have developed, despite or perhaps because of their flaws and weaknesses.