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April 14, 2007
Filming, painting and juggling.
Between filming, and during the editing I’ve been painting.
I find it easier to do more than one thing. There seems to be a creative atmosphere that builds up when things are going well. Some say the brain gets into a different state, the alpha state, when the right-hand side gets a look in. Americans would say I was in the zone.
You can’t work at full creative output for too long or the Dilithium crystals burn out. So having a break is called for – a cup of tea and a sweet biscuit perhaps. But then the danger is that you go off the boil, your brain reverts to being bossed around by the left-hand side, you drop out of the zone.
I find I get stuck if I stay with one thing, a staleness creeps into the zone. If I do two things, painting/editing, writing/drawing, I can switch between the two disciplines and keep fresh. The optimum number of works to be engaged with is seven, though you need a couple of three days clear to work up to that kind of creative output.
The title of this piece should in fact be: Filming, Painting, Plumbing and Juggling. For, as is a well know fact, painting pictures and making films is not the most efficacious way to keep the large hairy carnivores with big teeth, of the genus canis lupus, that roam throughout Northern Europe, from the wooden article mounted on hinges serving as a barricade in the opening used to gain access to an enclosed space. And other enterprises must needs be attended to.
IMAGE OF WATER PIPES RUNNING UNDER A FLOOR, REMOVED AT THE REQUEST OF THE PARTNER OF THE OWNER OF THE HOUSE
Juggling work is all part of the business of being a self-employed artist, so painting jugglers is about right, mind you filming me painting jugglers plumbing would be more correct.
Posted by john at April 14, 2007 09:10 AM