Getting ready for an exhibit of your artwork is exciting and scary. Will I have enough work? Is what I am making any good? Will I sell? Will people laugh at me?All of these questions go through my mind as I work in the studio. I would like to have a show that garners the respect of my peers. I'd like to feel that I accomplished something--moved my work forward in a new and positive direction. But the day to day experience in the studio is often fraught with doubt and frustration.
My solution is to try to be prolific on the theory that if I have a lot to choose from, I will have a better show as an end result. Working on many pieces at once helps too. If one is not going well or I am not sure what to do next, I can turn to another piece for a while. So today, I plan to crank them out--such a nice metaphor for a printmaker, because it works figuratively but also literally. Hopefully there will be a lot of cranking the press today.
Jan
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