Performance Anxieties
Aug. 11th, 2007 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cthulhiaFinally made a web page about next month's art show. After casing the joint checking out the space by attending a concert last night, which turned out to be pretty decent.
The space is much bigger than I realized. Sure, I don't have to fill it with art, but I feel like it'll look sparse. And, since it's more intended for performance than exhibit, I will have to work around tapestries and... non-gallery walls.
And, I was concerned that the paintings I *do* have weren't going well.
But, after dragonboat practice, dining al fresco with my Montreal puzzle buddy, and then taking off on my own to be a consumer whore in Harvard Square (I bought three pairs of shoes, granted, two were replacements of pairs worn to bits in the past year), I actually managed to come home and make progress on the paintings.
I've been so fussing over a sunset, inspired by a bleary drive home down I-89, that I was afraid doing my doodly abstract stuff would ruin it. But no, it worked. Enough that I want to do more sunsets, despite the risk of cliche. I like having the more realistic backgrounds for the doodles, and... there's specific sunsets, or at least, dusk moments, that I still remember and want to depict. Thursday's practice made me wish I had the skill for Photorealism, with the river and shiny office buildings reflecting the dimming light... if only I could download my vision directly into Richard Estes' brain.
The pieces referencing the performers are ok. They don't resonate for me quite as much, for being forced inspiration. But, they don't feel quite so blank to me anymore either. That's a relief.
One of the remaining big hurdles is figuring out how to present all the postcards, and whether I should even try to print them out bigger than normal, or if the pixelating will simply bring me to tears.
And.. scanning in the Surly Pink Bunnies. I still need a scanner, I don't think the one that's moving in will get here in time.
The space is much bigger than I realized. Sure, I don't have to fill it with art, but I feel like it'll look sparse. And, since it's more intended for performance than exhibit, I will have to work around tapestries and... non-gallery walls.
And, I was concerned that the paintings I *do* have weren't going well.
But, after dragonboat practice, dining al fresco with my Montreal puzzle buddy, and then taking off on my own to be a consumer whore in Harvard Square (I bought three pairs of shoes, granted, two were replacements of pairs worn to bits in the past year), I actually managed to come home and make progress on the paintings.
I've been so fussing over a sunset, inspired by a bleary drive home down I-89, that I was afraid doing my doodly abstract stuff would ruin it. But no, it worked. Enough that I want to do more sunsets, despite the risk of cliche. I like having the more realistic backgrounds for the doodles, and... there's specific sunsets, or at least, dusk moments, that I still remember and want to depict. Thursday's practice made me wish I had the skill for Photorealism, with the river and shiny office buildings reflecting the dimming light... if only I could download my vision directly into Richard Estes' brain.
The pieces referencing the performers are ok. They don't resonate for me quite as much, for being forced inspiration. But, they don't feel quite so blank to me anymore either. That's a relief.
One of the remaining big hurdles is figuring out how to present all the postcards, and whether I should even try to print them out bigger than normal, or if the pixelating will simply bring me to tears.
And.. scanning in the Surly Pink Bunnies. I still need a scanner, I don't think the one that's moving in will get here in time.
