What is it about artists, (& all creatives, musicians, writers, actors, etc.) that the only relevant work is either completed or yet to be? I've been giving lots of thought to this question and it seems that, (for me anyway) there is a living electricity/enthusiasm and immediacy to what is either in progress or in imagination; once manifest, the need to move on and "begin again" over-rides what has been done, and it becomes almost a chore to summon any energy to support what has come before. There is a NOWness to art; to be alive is to be current, to be new or in utero. That is why the very best art is always ongoing and relevant to every age, alway wet canvas.
I've got some new projects going in the studio, but nothing to share right now. Too raw, too unresolved, like a negative photo. I'm going slow on purpose and yet there is never a guarantee that what I aspire to will ever be.
Sometimes it's all just bright lights in a parking lot, a flash in the pan inspiration that comes to nothing much.
But we go on, don't we? To blog or not to blog about. I have hundreds and hundreds of photos of past work. I rarely use them here. There is No Juice left. No wet canvas.
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I think you have it here Marie. We are very tied into where our current work is, how it is driving us. Once over it is put behind us and relegated to a back burner. Again the need to focus on the current work in progress takes over. The energy and drive for the artist is connected only with what is current somehow. Like you I have many photos of previous work but rarely return to look at them. They are behind me and the energy that was invested in them has moved on.
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