Tag: things men gave me
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Day 153 of 1000: The meaning and mysticism of skiing and ski crashes
This week I crashed skiing, an accident redux recalling a similar crash of mine from ten years ago. A few thoughts on what it meant to me.
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Day 150 of 1000: Love as negation
To love, you must strip away your self and your ego, writes Simon Critchley in Mysticism. Iris Murdoch believed this too.
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Day 149 of 1000: When book writing goes slowly
I’ve been writing my memoir for over ten years and I’m now turning it into nonfiction. How to accept when writing a book goes very slowly.
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Day 86 of 1000: Planning to sell at festivals in 2026
Planning to sell my art and market my memoir at art festivals in 2026. What I’m thinking about to make that happen.
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Day 83 of 1000: Murakami on originality
Notes on originality from Haruki Murakami’s essay collection Novelist as Vocation. Originality comes from freedom, eliminating the extraneous, and creating from joy.
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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.
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Day 65 of 1000: What boredom might point to
Feeling bored and burnt out, I turn to the Tarot. The Judgment card asks if I’m turning down a call to adventure.
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Day 62 of 1000: Creating the opening of a work of writing
The opening of a piece of writing sets the stage for the rest of the work. My first essay opening Things Men Gave Me is now published.
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Day 60 of 1000: Art of the mind
Conceptual art is art of the mind rather than of the senses. How I’m doing conceptual art with my Things Men Gave Me project.
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DAy 55 of 1000: On titling abstract paintings
Thinking about titling abstract paintings, with commentary from Maggie Smith on titling poems. How TMGM painting titles can add to a reader’s experience of the essay.
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Day 54 of 1000: Finding my voice as a memoir writer
How do I find my voice as a memoir writer? Thinking about how to reframe the first essay in the Things Men Gave me series.
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Day 52 of 1000: Establishing artistic focus
Figuring out which paintings to submit to the This is Colorado show. Thinking about the week ahead with my visiting daughter.
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Day 50 of 1000: Navigating change in relationships
How I changed over the course of the relationships I’m writing about in my Things Men Gave Me essay-and-painting project. The false goal I was after.
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Day 45 of 1000: Expressing authenticity in art
Seeking to express authentic moments of life through my art rather than trying to make great art. Acting on an idea that visited me a long time ago.
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Day 43 of 1000: Bringing a painting to completion, twice
While it’s true that continuing to work on a painting beyond when it strikes you will initially make it worse, you can keep going and make it better with enough iteration
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Day 39 of 1000: Challenges in my life and in my art
Working to develop my artist’s statement, I share my responses to two more prompts from Alyson Stanfield’s prompts to shape your art marketing message.
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Day 36 of 1000: Finding creative inspiration in repetition
Finding creative inspiration by starting a series of paintings based on a repetitive set of steps, and a concept for what the paintings represent.