Wednesday, October 8, 2008

not wasting any more time.

Well, here I am on vacation,which means: to vacate yourself, right?
1st day and it is great so far,slept in 'til 10, went out to lunch with a freind, browsed around in Dinkytown,stop at the library,that sort of thing. Trying not to get too wrapped up in errand running because that's too much like a work day, and want to avoid that! Yikes!
I don't have to worry about sublimation since I am unwinding and doing what I want, right? I wonder if relaxing is avoiding the process or part of the process of getting back to work in my studio. I do think it could a preliminary to really getting back down to my creative core but I also wonder if I am still in the postponement mode and too used to doing my process that way. The whole point of taking time off was to get ready for the art crawl and then job hunt &/or research starting a buisness. Is a week enough for that? Oh yeah, also to see how a different schedule works, two days at a time instead of five. I feel the five days a week makes me too complacent, bored and frustrated thus stressed and uninspired. Oh yeah and wiped out! So tommorow, what? Yes,This is quite the experiment, look~ I'm writing if you count blogging as real writing,why not? stream of consciousness is valid. Plus I am editing as I go along,so that is process too.
I imagine that this is part of the unwinding process and if I come to the library every day or to a coffeshop and journal I have made some progress toward making a new process. One thing about being creative is that I am always willing to try another way and unwilling to give up altogether.
That's probably a good thing, since what do you have if you give up? What do you have if you give in? Two different questions, which I will address at another time. I only want to say that because it's not going to be my attitude to do either. And if I have to be my own cheerleader I will, dammit!!

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