I’m flipping through my old sketchbook. It’s funny really, how I couldn’t see the imperfections; the drawing was terrible. Now I can’t seperate the good from the bad. Once I find an imperfection, I zero in on it.
I obsessed over art even then. I guess some things never change.
As artists, we often get stuck in our own minds. Constantly deleting, erasing, editing when the first draft isn’t finished. It’s a familiar feeling, needing to be perfect on the first try.
Maybe it’s killing us. It’s killing me too.
I haven’t learned to let go yet, but I’ll tell you when I get there.
Authors Note: I’m trying to be more active, so, my thought was to write down my daily musings as a writer-artist. I hope to be more active in the future.
Interestingly, art is an area where I face less perfectionism than others; poetry, for instance, is eternally a work in progress—I revise over and over, tweaking words back and forth, etc. Nevertheless, I do know this feeling, zooming in on the imperfections and obsessing over them. It's definitely a struggle, and it doesn't seem to lessen with time, from what I hear from other folks. But on the other hand, I'm grateful to be able to make creative work at all! <3
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This is very recognisable and something I still struggle with to this day.
Letting go is more a journey than a goal, I think.
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I don't know if I'll get there, but I try, even if I frequently forget.
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It does become an obsession, and a compulsion to continuously pick at it--writing or visual art. The further you work on it, the more work you seem to discover it needing.
In all my years, I still have difficulty knowing when to let go. Let me know when you do and how you do it?
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If I get there, you'll be the first to know.
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