The Unhealthy Artist

    When an artist is not well, should his art suffer for it? I find this to be (sadly) true. Of course I can only speak for myself, but as I am faulty in my health; be it emotional, physical, mental, or spiritual, I find that my creative spirit gives up.

     I know that God/dess has gifted me with an innate sensativity to beauty and art and given me abilities in said area, so would I be defiling that gift when I do not use it simply because I am too tired? I feel that artists are constantly expected to create, though sometimes we just need to do nothing but exist and let the art come naturally...in its own time.

Lone

Fighting Imperfection

Well I must say...this hockney project is tapping something inside of me that I have ignored for a very long time: my fear of imperfection. The fact that things do not line up perfectly shakes my insides like nothing else, and what an irritant that can be in the world of art seeing art itself is imperfection.

Ya ya ya I'm sure this is a subconscious awakening of sorts but that is not the point. In order to be rid of unhealthy feelings, we must first apply and excercise these fears in small ways. I shall start by loving the finished product.

Puddle

 

 

 

 

The Morning After

Alter