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dancing_crowSome thinking after talking to someone about my work steadily for an hour:
I love my landscape
I love the terrain I live in
why does it feel harder to make those?
why do I baulk at making more landscapes and veer into this open abstract terrain instead
I like the stories of the people who dashed off a song to fill an album and made a hit, and they never loved it the way all of the world loved it, they instead had a secret special difficult piece of their they loved harder and perpetually carry some disdain for all those shallow souls loveing that stupid little ditty when if they were just paying attention they could see the depths and interest in the difficult soul.
Apparently, so I read, Monet got really sick of waterlilies
but also they were the thing of his everyone wanted, and sale of them made his comfortable life possible
so how do you do the work and sell the work and have secret favorites that are difficult and have acclaim for the easy stupid stuff?
What makes the easy stuff stupid - I think that might be a different question and more to the point. If you are thinking about it, and using talent and skill developed over time through practice, just because it is easy for you doesn't mean it isn't a super power.
I love my landscape
I love the terrain I live in
why does it feel harder to make those?
why do I baulk at making more landscapes and veer into this open abstract terrain instead
I like the stories of the people who dashed off a song to fill an album and made a hit, and they never loved it the way all of the world loved it, they instead had a secret special difficult piece of their they loved harder and perpetually carry some disdain for all those shallow souls loveing that stupid little ditty when if they were just paying attention they could see the depths and interest in the difficult soul.
Apparently, so I read, Monet got really sick of waterlilies
but also they were the thing of his everyone wanted, and sale of them made his comfortable life possible
so how do you do the work and sell the work and have secret favorites that are difficult and have acclaim for the easy stupid stuff?
What makes the easy stuff stupid - I think that might be a different question and more to the point. If you are thinking about it, and using talent and skill developed over time through practice, just because it is easy for you doesn't mean it isn't a super power.