Nice job on the podcast. Patience, Courage and Honesty. Patience has a lot to do with just digging in and suspending judgement. Like I say from experience, 'patience is a virtue that can only be developed once you have run out of it'. Things take time and when you are at the beginning the view ahead looks daunting so don't look ahead, give yourself permission to take refuge in the present. That's where the courage come in - to keep going without knowing if you have the staying power to see it though and not enough trail behind you to see where you have been. It all looks so clumsy because you are poking around in the dark. But that means you are about to discover something. This is where the honesty comes in but honesty in this case means following your inner promptings and feeling out the subtle rightness or wrongness of things and of your responses. "No that's wrong, no that doesn't feel right, oops wait, I think that feels better, oh, I like that. what makes that feel right?" You have to spend the many, many hours it takes. You have to reach self abandon or selflessness where you are not there while your working like the great quote from John Cage "When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave." John Cage You have to make, and make, and make. This is the only way that you can get to a critical mass of micro decisions. You 'voice' emerges from the thousands and tens of thousands of tiny decisions, tiny lessons learned, tiny problems solved, tiny choices made, tiny revelations and insights that culminate in revealing exactly 'you' over time. With enough practice only 'you' can emerge in the end even if you start out as a disciple of someone else. Without those endless hours in the trenches you can't get to the accumulation of the ten thousand little gems that will make you who you will become. So be patient, take the time, have courage, and listen to your inner truth, your intuitive knowingness which is your self honesty. Trying to rush it slows you down.
yes yes yes to everything! I believe I use that John Cage quote in one of the episodes somewhere, I also use it regularly in my mentorship program, it is one of my favorites because that is exactly how I operate every day! (One of my former mentee's apprenticed under John Cage way back when, as he was starting out at NYU in music composition). Thank you so much for listening and for your wonderful insight that you shared. Nathan said he was able to meet you at your opening in Dallas with Eric a few weeks back. Hopefully you and I can connect at some point as well! - Ty Nathan Clark:)
Hedda's geometric compositions are spectacular
Agreed, just fantastic.
Nice job on the podcast. Patience, Courage and Honesty. Patience has a lot to do with just digging in and suspending judgement. Like I say from experience, 'patience is a virtue that can only be developed once you have run out of it'. Things take time and when you are at the beginning the view ahead looks daunting so don't look ahead, give yourself permission to take refuge in the present. That's where the courage come in - to keep going without knowing if you have the staying power to see it though and not enough trail behind you to see where you have been. It all looks so clumsy because you are poking around in the dark. But that means you are about to discover something. This is where the honesty comes in but honesty in this case means following your inner promptings and feeling out the subtle rightness or wrongness of things and of your responses. "No that's wrong, no that doesn't feel right, oops wait, I think that feels better, oh, I like that. what makes that feel right?" You have to spend the many, many hours it takes. You have to reach self abandon or selflessness where you are not there while your working like the great quote from John Cage
"When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave." John Cage
You have to make, and make, and make. This is the only way that you can get to a critical mass of micro decisions. You 'voice' emerges from the thousands and tens of thousands of tiny decisions, tiny lessons learned, tiny problems solved, tiny choices made, tiny revelations and insights that culminate in revealing exactly 'you' over time. With enough practice only 'you' can emerge in the end even if you start out as a disciple of someone else. Without those endless hours in the trenches you can't get to the accumulation of the ten thousand little gems that will make you who you will become. So be patient, take the time, have courage, and listen to your inner truth, your intuitive knowingness which is your self honesty. Trying to rush it slows you down.
yes yes yes to everything! I believe I use that John Cage quote in one of the episodes somewhere, I also use it regularly in my mentorship program, it is one of my favorites because that is exactly how I operate every day! (One of my former mentee's apprenticed under John Cage way back when, as he was starting out at NYU in music composition). Thank you so much for listening and for your wonderful insight that you shared.
Nathan said he was able to meet you at your opening in Dallas with Eric a few weeks back. Hopefully you and I can connect at some point as well! - Ty Nathan Clark:)