What about the work you don’t see me do?
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What about the work you don’t see me do?
Most artists are so busy simply attempting to produce satisfying work or make a living that they forget that, ultimately, they are making work to communicate their own version of the truth. We make work that mirrors our own deeply held ideas about the world.
Lisa Congdon • Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic
traditional concepts of achievement. At a time when achieving material success (and even security) became increasingly difficult for a preponderance of Americans, and during a period when traditional moral values were in flux, the idea of life as a work of art, however vaguely defined, offered a sense of creative possibility. Simultaneously, the id
... See moreMicki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
My life as a parent seems to come at the storytelling problem differently. The experience crowds out the narration, rather than the other way around. What is there to say about omnipresence? There’s a tactility to parenting (feeding, cleaning, dressing, hugging, rocking, kissing), a primitive quality (love, protection, devotion), that resists intel... See more
The artist with the least access to social or aesthetic solidarity or approbation has been the artist-housewife. A person who undertakes responsibility both to her art and to her dependent children, with no “tireless affection” or even tired affection to call on, has undertaken a full-time double job that can be simply, practically, destroyingly im
... See moreUrsula K. Le Guin • Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
It is a commonplace among artists and children at play that they're not aware of time or solitude while they're chasing their vision. The hours fly. The sculptress and the tree- climbing tyke both look up blinking when Mom calls, "Suppertime!"