I’m back.

Not ready to show new work yet but proof I’m back in my studio.

Work in progress shot of the repainted background of this one from last year.

Full transparency - I took a long hiatus. Yep, after posting my first blog post mid September, winter hit and I got really unmotivated to do much of anything at all. In fact, from October to basically February, I didn’t even come to my studio to do anything other than water my plants. I have a small satellite studio at my apartment, but only used it for my day job and avoided my drawing table at all costs. I could say that the holidays were the reason for this absence but really I think I was burned out from life and the pressure of “making it”. 

Last summer, I really wanted to start taking my work more seriously and commoditize it. I wanted art to be my second job. However, classic me, I put too much on myself. I am still trying to figure out who I am and what I’m interested in. Performance pressure really sucked the fun right out of making for me.

As any kind of creative oriented blog, book, or newsletter will tell you, fun and play is the key towards overall creativity. When we throw perfection, productivity and pressure on ourselves as creatives to perform and make perfect work, the artwork becomes a chore. I am not ready to make it a chore or even make a living from it. For me, art is an outlet from my day job and an escape from our capitalist society. I’m at a huge experimental and open phase of my life and I think that is ok. At least I’m ok with it for now. I’m excited for the future but I’m taking things slow at my pace.

Currently though, I am back in the studio and working on a lot of different things all at once. Different mediums, different subjects and having fun with it (Can’t wait to show some of it off :) )  Sometimes for us to get a perspective on things, we have to take a break and a step back and come back to it at a later date.