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December 02, 2003
blank panels and tricky visions
It must be alchemy, surely: to bring something from nothing. First there must be a vision, or maybe before the vision an emotion, a passion, as I have mentioned earlier in the diaries. But a passion is a long standing thing; it’s a big feeling, existing over time.
A passion over a long period can provide a vision. This vision may be tangible and therefore readily palpable – transposed into physical being. But the vision may be abstract and composed of feelings and puzzles which are hard to put down.
When faced with the blank panel, the blank paper, the blank canvas; the vast expanse of white nothingness; with no meaning, no delineation, no clues; it is so hard to bring something new forward. The temptation is to go with what has been done before, what is familiar, what is safe.
So find a new element, a new piece of the puzzle perhaps, that will move things on. And grab the brush like a warrior’s sword and make a mark – just a mark. Then things get [slightly] easier.
Flux level, at one three double oh yesterday: high, remaining good, falling steadily to moderate, possible fug in quiet periods.
Posted by john at December 2, 2003 12:10 AM
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