Thoughts…
May 12th, 2005Working on that itty bitty mini-book for the mini-book AB on ABEurope. Really exciting and is somewhat more of a challenge than I thought. Do I use small things or bits of big things? Just waiting for some paint to dry and need to decide on the covers but so far, I’m excited! 
Been having a few thoughts about ‘art’ recently, prolly not new thoughts but still, thoughts that have been rolling around in that vacuous space upstairs. An interesting thought about ‘themes’ has arisen. Do themes confine or does the lack of one liberate? One might say that having a theme for an AB is another task to bear in mind while creating a spread, but doesn’t it also provide boundaries? Or are they limitations? Does the removal of a theme leave one flailing with no ’structure’ to cling to or does the lack of constraints liberate the Muse?
How about Art as a competitive sport, why? Why do people feel competitive about it? Why would anyone want to produce ’something’ that looked like someone else’s ’something’? To prove that one can make something ‘that good’ or to prove that one is ‘better’ than so-snd-so? Why aren’t people content with just being themselves and producing what they are inspired to produce? Something individual to them, that nobody else can re-create. Now there’s a question……
I’ll leave my other thoughts to confuddle you another day……. 
