"Good artists borrow; great artists steal" |
About five or six years ago now, I had the (quite obvious) revelation that since I wasn’t in danger of showing my drawings any time soon, the only person that I had to please with them was me. And since I didn’t have any audience to answer to, I was free to draw things without knowing why, exactly, I was drawing them. (This was in some ways easy, and in some ways very difficult. I did, after all, have years of art school YOU'RE A NOBODY IF YOU'RE NOT SHOWING YOUR WORK brainwashing to overcome.) |
I’ve mostly given up on the idea of becoming an Artist, and tried to focus on being an artist instead. Less “What does it mean?” and “What am I trying to say?” And more “What’s alive here?” and “What is it leading me to notice?” I really have no idea if this shift has made my work any more compelling to the outside viewer or not, but I’m certainly find myself surprised more often as I draw, and I’m sure I’m much happier as a result. The capital-lettered Important Artist is still here, to be sure, but thankfully, he’s mostly pacified by putting scans of old drawings (like these) online. |
(Not the former pitcher for the Yankees)
January 2019
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September 2018