What the market wants is lower cost, more efficient production, higher output and easily reproducible steps. If that becomes one’s criteria for running an art practice, it’s not an art practice anymore, it’s a business.
September 30, 2025
Other observations
I have to work today
What if, on the days we don’t feel like making art, we do anyway? In the same way that we show up to our day jobs when we don’t fee like it?
Scared of progress
The problem with progress is that we’re likely to learn that we’re either not good enough or not ambitious enough. But maybe there’s no other way?
What’s a chair for?
If a chair is for sitting, what’s sitting for? Why sit at all?
The ancestors are speaking
What might we be able to tell ourselves and listen for in order to provoke more positive energy and action in our art practice?
Can I do this?
Where does the motivation for beginning mark making come from? Why would I even try in the first place?