Conservation Practice
http://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/conservation/in-fine-feather-the-conservation-of-a-balenciaga-dress/
Doing the practice is the journey that is the work
https://www.instagram.com/violincase/
Hilary Hahn's Violincase:
Official. Creator of #100daysofpractice. Violincase of touring 3x-Grammy-winning violin soloist Hilary Hahn.
A brief conversation on IG that I had with Professor KDKing, about who succeeds and who doesn't, led to two book suggestions
http://geoffcolvin.com/books/talent-is-overrated/
Colvin is an editor at Fortune, ho hum, but the summary is the point: it's about putting in the time, not what you bring to it.
I know, this seems so sad. I've bored you with the schpiel about the potter who makes a living at it from my college classes,
AND IT'S TRUE.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/art-fear-david-bayles/1101156158?
https://kk.org/cooltools/art-fear/
https://artistryinaction.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/david_bayles_ted_orland_art_and_fear.pdf
Boiling it down: the people who make a living at an art are the people who just keep at it. It's why ants are successful: they don't stop.
I know, I hear you say: but where's the inspiration? Well, you bring that. But you can't wait for it to come to you. It's there while you put in the 10,000...no, wait, the every day hours you put in.
Love the process. Don't stop.
"Fail more.
Fail better."
- Samuel Beckett
Meanwhile, this is what I'm doing
Almost all of them.
Oy.
Meanwhile, this is what I'm doing
Oy.
so true, and very interesting about the ceramics groupings. It reminds me of my degree show where I had to make a set of resin castings, and I left it to the last minute wondering how I should approach it and dithered for the best part of the week, in the end I did the lot in about 3 hours and berated myself for having wasted all the time just 'thinking about it'
ReplyDeleteYou win:procrastinating with resin is epic. How did you make the molds? I would have been sweating the mix and messed it up (ah, plaster mold making for ceramics is actually more time consuming that making a set by hand. Although it does open up some build possibilities you wouldn't get with hand building. I guess this means I need to find the box with the ceramic soup tureen shaped like a zeppelin.
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