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time to think
Sep. 18th, 2006 02:31 pmMany more thoughts about lifestyle....art....sustainability. I try to follow certain tracks forward... doing calculations in my head...chess moves of a sort...and so far all I can see with each of these possible trajectories towards being able to really make a living....is a life with emphasis on 'production'...a sort of object factory. and that rings wrong with me...*sigh*
"Continuing with the same argument, but giving different reasons, the sound artist and writer David Toop says, "The irony is that the more successful an artist becomes, the more administration, the more travel, the more interviews, the more advisory committees, the more students writing a thesis on you, the more just about anything except time to think."
and there's the rub. because ohmy ohmy I need time to think most most of all. Thinking is so undervalued in our culture. I have not yet found a way to even Talk about it...as an activity...that requires time...that is such a necessary large part of my days/life. I feel that if looked at...society would see that time as 'empty' and try to fill it. Sort of: Well, if you're not working (scheduled job outside of house or visible production task in studio(resin pour,painting), then you're available...for this or that. Until there are no spaces left. Yet it is (to me) the spaces, the thinking, the well, from which the meaning of my work comes...and any possibility of change with a bigger picture in mind.
How to slow down and yet support oneself?has become a persistent question in my head these days. Just as everything seems to be speeding up..
"Continuing with the same argument, but giving different reasons, the sound artist and writer David Toop says, "The irony is that the more successful an artist becomes, the more administration, the more travel, the more interviews, the more advisory committees, the more students writing a thesis on you, the more just about anything except time to think."
and there's the rub. because ohmy ohmy I need time to think most most of all. Thinking is so undervalued in our culture. I have not yet found a way to even Talk about it...as an activity...that requires time...that is such a necessary large part of my days/life. I feel that if looked at...society would see that time as 'empty' and try to fill it. Sort of: Well, if you're not working (scheduled job outside of house or visible production task in studio(resin pour,painting), then you're available...for this or that. Until there are no spaces left. Yet it is (to me) the spaces, the thinking, the well, from which the meaning of my work comes...and any possibility of change with a bigger picture in mind.
How to slow down and yet support oneself?has become a persistent question in my head these days. Just as everything seems to be speeding up..
