As well as not eating red meat or junk food, I have a few changes I want to make about the way I make work. I've been thinking about it during the christmas break and I feel at the moment like drawing and designing is becoming a stressful chore that I find myself trying to avoid. I feel like I am constantly trying to create what I think other people will like rather than the kind of stuff I like myself. This is why I haven't developed a strong personal style. Also I have too much of a binary view of my work, I have a few bits I definitely like whilst everything else I consider a complete failure, there is no middle ground between me not being able to look at a piece and wanting to put it up on my wall.
I also feel like I am personally being judged by everything I produce which makes the process of working really stressful and actually conducive to making work which all too often plays it safe and is too self aware.
My goal therefore is to try and be more free in my work, imparting more of myself in the work I produce. I have alot of ideas which don't make it out of my head because I'm unsure as to how they will go down so I will try to exorcise these abit more.
I've finished my website now, which I'm pretty pleased with and am going to use as a starting point for a general improvement in the work I produce. I'm going to make a start tomorrow with the screenprints for the postcards exhibition.
Happy 2010!
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