Okay, so I've been avoiding blogging. Apparently there are expectations I have of my "live" writing abilities. These expectations can really be debilitating. And so, I'll move swiftly on. I am currently moving into my new studio digs. I am finding how much I enjoy a blank space to work in. My knee-jerk reaction was to move-in as much of my stuff in as possible. Now I realize I would rather have a blank contemplative space to work. More junk surrounding me, the more jumbled thoughts I have- more organization, more clarity. And I don't like chatchky or bric-a-brac... I really admire it in your home, I just don't want it around me. Who knew, even as an artist, I had a stereotype in my mind. Not all artists are funky-dory.
I don't believe that "everything has been done before." I just don't. I do believe that the forces that be (mass media and such) don't illuminate things that are new and different, that cross boundaries and re-examine history. This structure of influence and exposure makes it necessary to turn over rocks on the Internet and follow breadcrumbs of influences in order to find the really heady stuff. It's there. Though it might be thinly veiled and require some effort to access. "Original thought" is also a myth. No one has a thought that isn't built upon one or one-hundred thoughts of others before them. Those thoughts just come in different packages- be it a loaf of bread, a man-hole cover, a poster, a wrapper, a building structure, music, religion, theory, etc. And I am proud to absorb everything around me in order to make "new" work. Just give it props! Do people genuinely believe they came up with something completely on their own?
http://http://www.turtlezen.com/originalthoughts.html
http://www.originalthoughtmag.com/mag/
http://www.philogos.org/original.html
