Work 22: Wasted Words

I am in a thoughtful mood today, and it has me paging through recent journal entries. Its good that memories both remembered and forgotten can be made tangible in pen and paper. I forgot about this entry, but I recall the sentiment.

Explicitly it is now a matter of confidence. Perhaps it has always been, only now it is so apparent. My voice is not as immediate nor loud as it should be. Therefore I speak in suggestions and speculations, not plans and beliefs. The words are far between and lame by qualification. In letting others speak first I swallow that which sits ready on my lips. A sober tongue is a stagnant tongue. I say all this, and still I am mostly talk. For what little I say, I am more word than action. I get excited about something and I talk it to death. I literally continue to bring it up until it fizzles out. Never happens. An idea put to waste. I am where good ideas go to die.

Work 18: Cloud Scene

At the moment I am technically as well as inspirationally tied up in a project of mixed media. Right now I am fighting through a spell of soured ambition. As part of this project I am learning Apple Motion, a video editing program that creates a 3D environment. This clip is my first effort at the program. As it is only a rough draft, it may not make it to the final project. The clouds are made of paper towels.

Work 1: The 52 Step

This is the year I become an artist.

Somewhere there is a conversation taking place concerned with what makes an artist, or art. I could pull up my scrap heap of ideas and maybe peer onto the table of such discourse. Or I could stack a realized body of work and engage the discussion. At present I do not have this stack. At one piece a week for fifty-two weeks, I intend to prove myself an artist. ...or a man with a stack of stuff.

Until now, artist as concept only. A mind without a body of work. This year I will grow a body, one piece at a time. Given the weekly deadline, the emphasis is on quantity over quality, though hopefully the two can overlap.

This site will work as my open sketchbook, gallery, or whatever forum seems most appropriate. Take a look, check back, share your thoughts. Both the52step and myself are a work in progress...