Update 2020-12-11 – God Fucking Damnit
With apologies to Abramović, Legault, LeBeouf & O’Connell #iamnotsorry
That’s it. Day 365. I made/did/posted/arted art every day for an entire year.
EVERY DAY FOR A YEAR.
From one perspective, I elevated art and its place in my life.
From another perspective, I made art in my life only slightly less common than drinking water or going to the bathroom.
If think about this need to produce, to post to the internet where it gets swept away on the crest of attention and the trough of apathy, it’s kind of like… needing to use the washroom and flushing it down the toilet. Urgent, there, and then gone.
Not to say it’s a waste. But that it is natural and fleeting.
Well, on Twitter, anyway. The /blog index has allowed me to keep the last 10 arts produced for quick reference or context or whatever. You can always go digging for more, but in some ways the older pieces are about as relevant as page two of Google search results.
And that’s why I’m hesitant about doing a retrospective sort of thing, like I routinely do on iScotch.
Art has become about producing art. It has become a verb: I have arted, I am arting, I will art.
I art, therefore I am. I guess that’s DescARTes, bahdumbum.
It isn’t about any particular piece or thing that I did/do, although obviously I have favourites. It has been about the act of making, whether I know what the fuck I’m doing or not.
365 days of creating something every day has meant that “I can’t think of anything” is effectively meaningless. Not that I am filled to brimming with ideas (OPPOSITE), but I used to think art was being struck by a muse and carried away on a torrent of your own genius. I’ve learned that it can be/mean banging your head against the wall until you notice the flat spot on your forehead casts a neat shadow and take a picture of it.
I have learned to just start making art, and what is worthy will find you, or you’ll find it, or however your universe works.
Looking forward, tomorrow is Future Day. Sounds like a good day to do something new.
Thank you to everyone for your support and interest this year.
fin#art365
