After a 7-hour teaching day I am having trouble being creative. All day I have been thinking about the rules. I remember reading about this couple that decided to have sex everyday for a year. When interviewed on the radio the couple described that many days the commitment to making love had become burdensome and mundane. I remember them likening the act to brushing their teeth.
I decided to make 365 photographs one day at a time. Does that have to be 365 consecutive days? If I am exhausted can I skip a day? What if I can't post until just after midnight, did I blow it? I never really stated the rules. And honestly as an artist aren't I supposed to be breaking the rules? I invent rules to live and work by. Why? Are these false boundaries necessary?
I remember the day I decided to become a visual artist. My high school photography teacher took me to a John Baldessari exhibition at Margo Levin Gallery. Mr. O'Malley explained Baldessari didn’t take the photographs but instead appropriated and juxtaposed them to create something of his own. I was shocked down to my Topsiders!
Not only does Baldessari break the rules, but also he is his own critic.
Wendy, it's your blog therefore it's your rules!!!
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