January 29, 2023

Weight :235.7

Development

Art, for me, is ninety percent preparation and ten percent execution which applies to all facets of life. The deeper I dive into the creative process, the more prep work I have overlooked. In other words, the more you know, the less you know. Currently, I’m in a prep development stage of creativity where I’m trying to refine the creation process through meticulous research and practice. One example of that is, as of late, I’ve been melding tech with art and coding to facilitate the prep work further. I’ve been slowly introducing scripts into Photoshop and Maya to give me more control of the outcome, and the results have been pretty surprising and compelling. But I don’t want to celebrate too early because the more I know, the more I don’t know.

I’m developing a plug-in to help me facilitate the coloring and manipulation of value ranges while being sole in replacing said value ranges with an overlay of templated textures. So far, I have a clunky replacement for an adjustment layer, but with a bit more control, I still have a lot more testing to go, but I’m confident I will have something solid in the following month.

Permanent dream state.

Some of my favorite illustrators, artists, and filmmakers have talked about making art in a subconscious presence. David lynch creates a state of dreamlike monotony by creating a strict routine (i.e., wearing identical clothes and having the same meal ); doing so allows him to free up his mind of the meaningless things that take up mental space. Roman Murodov, one of my favorite contemporary illustrators, talks about creating his best work immediately after waking up to use that half-asleep mindstate to freely concept out ideas.

Now that in approaching 60 days of limited social information, I feel that I’m in this permanent meditative dreamlike state. I now wake up with a complete sense of wonderment, leading to what I like to call naive execution, which thus far has been one of the most exciting things that have happened to me during this experiment. In this state, I don’t have creative mental blocks or limitations. Removing the social component of an idea seems to free up creative energy to search further. But there are some adverse effects to this. It created a form of anxiety; being how time has been a loose concept, I tend to have momentary lapses of stress caused by the fear of not having enough time to develop these ideas.

Project 1344

Project 1344 is a painting endeavor my brother and I thiughtbkf on our last painting outing. For the remainder of the year, between work and life, we will paint four quick paintings daily( One in the morning, one at lunch, one post work, and another before bed). Those painted will be accompanied by a short description of the day. We hope that after 336 days, we will be able to see how certain things affect our ability to make.