Day 185 of Year 2 (Actually Day 190)
I have a number of larger projects bumping around in my head, but I'm feeling at a bit of a loss in the print studio. Getting my show put together was a major energetic completion. The new energies have not uncovered themselves yet. It's an uncomfortable moment which can easily derail an artist. No one likes to feel uncomfortable. No one likes to make work they're not happy with. The trick is just staying with the discomfort. It has to be ok to make incomplete, ugly, unsatisfying, whatever work. My trust in the process is absolute. Knowing that whatever it is being made today is necessary to bring an artist to the next step has carried me through many a rough patch.
From burweed
by Kobayashi Issa, Trans. Stryk and Ikemoto
From burweed,
such a butterfly
was born?
From Zen Poetry https://amzn.to/3anmIeT (A great book with a wide variety of poems and poets)