04-27-2015, 05:44 PM
thx bros. will definitely take it to heart.
Thinking about the critique from the other day and the resistance of "not being involved with working quite as much as I use to. I think I honestly get less excited about it . Along the way I gave into desiring a level of social recognition for my art/heart. I think that true intention comes from a place of stillness within the human spirit. ...that just "being"...at least for me, so while its easy to "want to be the best that no one ever was" I think the reason I started doing this was ever about that. It was about connecting to what I felt like mattered, connecting to core. I love elves, dwarves, and monsters, lightsabers and shit. -Don't get me wrong, but that's where the "art" is right now. I'm not sure that that's where I want to be too, though a story telling element is certainly a part of that. I guess what I'm saying overtly is that I want to give up what my expectations of art are suppose to be and learn to enjoy the process again. Connecting to what I'm doing instead of feeling a detached elatedness to it. I think I'll keep doing very similar things at least in appearance, but the approach mentally is what changes. I feel pretentious even re-reading this, but I feel nothing but love for influences and what came before and looking forward into pushing off from there!
Resistance is the home we're all chasing after.
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Thinking about the critique from the other day and the resistance of "not being involved with working quite as much as I use to. I think I honestly get less excited about it . Along the way I gave into desiring a level of social recognition for my art/heart. I think that true intention comes from a place of stillness within the human spirit. ...that just "being"...at least for me, so while its easy to "want to be the best that no one ever was" I think the reason I started doing this was ever about that. It was about connecting to what I felt like mattered, connecting to core. I love elves, dwarves, and monsters, lightsabers and shit. -Don't get me wrong, but that's where the "art" is right now. I'm not sure that that's where I want to be too, though a story telling element is certainly a part of that. I guess what I'm saying overtly is that I want to give up what my expectations of art are suppose to be and learn to enjoy the process again. Connecting to what I'm doing instead of feeling a detached elatedness to it. I think I'll keep doing very similar things at least in appearance, but the approach mentally is what changes. I feel pretentious even re-reading this, but I feel nothing but love for influences and what came before and looking forward into pushing off from there!
Resistance is the home we're all chasing after.
![[Image: 17284749682_fda5eb12aa_c.jpg]](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7715/17284749682_fda5eb12aa_c.jpg)
![[Image: 17098801708_ea48795a72_c.jpg]](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7668/17098801708_ea48795a72_c.jpg)
![[Image: 17079133657_b156f4f068_c.jpg]](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7667/17079133657_b156f4f068_c.jpg)
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