Art practice
you make good work when you let your guard down.
Mel Ottenberg • Aidan Zamiri Is the Moment
Who do I think I am that needs so much protection?
Real humility is detaching from how important or unimportant, how good or not good, enough or not enough, you might be in order to surrender to the divine spark.
Maria Bowler • Making Time
Anyone who creates anything for a living oscillates between two extremes.
The first being the desire to garner a larger following for your work.
The second being the urge to flee the grid and dedicate your life to a craft whose worth is not determined by an algorithm designed by an army of... See more
instagram.comArt is about the maker.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
I think this piece gets a lot right
I find the most risk in committing to arduous conceptually challenging projects, and not attempting to contort a practice to whatever the feed is animated about.
Artists and institutions alike are encouraged to be reactive, or court audiences, in order to... See more
Mat Dryhurstx.comIt’s tempting to think of art as outside of our practical needs: art does not hold up walls or keep us warm; it derives its value from our perceptions of it. It exists to prove we are capable of appreciating things beyond their practicality. We can see again how it is directly opposed to the inherent efficiency of money: if art were so crass as to
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