making to make.

This initial brief is simply an “ice breaker” brief, in which we are supposed to just make work to warm us up and get us used to being back in the studio environment.

This making for the sake of making and this process of making work that I dont like and then continuing to make work I don’t like is incredibly upsetting and I find, rather counterproductive. I tend to thrive off of making new work that succeeds in my mind. I get disengaged and disappointed when the work doesn’t come off as I hoped- so I like to plan out my pieces – or at least start with a theme of some sort.

Today alone I read an essay, copied my summative notes from 2 art theory texts into a new notebook, and read about 4 chapters of a new art theory book as means of procrastinating the painting work I dont want to do.

However my problem falls in that I really do want to be making work in the studio and I’m so excited to be back, but I’m too scared to start and WASTE materials. I’m too scared to be wrong – which makes making for the sake of making a stressful and unrewarding process.