Though I am unemployed, I am not unoccupied. My life has taken on a certain friendly rhythm.. I get up in the morning, get coffee and study my current row of unfinished paintings. I ponder them, and what needs to be done to them in the beautiful morning light. Besides daily tasks and occasional errands and things to take care of, for the last few weeks, I have basically been painting all day from 7 to 3 pm. as if it were my job.
Only then -- after 3p.m. do I allow myself to go online. I used to be on all day -- let me repeat ALL DAY! I would CHURN in that endless internet way -- where by you feel like you are working at something, yet afterwards you realize you have actually done nothing and taken all day to do it..... I am not twittering, nor facebooking, nor chasing down endless email items all day. Not that those are not interesting - but they need to be balanced with something physical and real. They need to be contained by limiting the time spent on them. I don't know about you, but I need other things in my world. I have stopped joining various membership sites online as well, and unjoined a few. You can't be everywhere....
Now at the end of the day, I can look and see what progress has been made. That is, what concrete physical changes have been made to the paintings at hand. It has made life more simple and less stressful, and made me a bit quieter at heart. In this crazy world, that can't be bad.
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