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| Drama: Artist's BLock |
Posted by
BlueLinn on Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 07:03 AM PST
When the world turns mad round oneself and every sound turns into a constant noise and the pressure is unbearable and the frantic feeling of stress falls down upon my shoulders, this is an Artists block.
Where nothing I do can even compare to the vast array of images sprawled around, flashing within my subconscious. When the roles are changed and I shout at my dad to turn the stereo down because it is so loud that the bass is reverberating off the floorboards and knocking over my cup of water for my paints, knocking my hand out of balance, and pounding on the inside of my temples… Then, the remembrance of how he was bitching to me that I had turned the speaker up too loud before that it blew the speaker… :nods head: right.
Every color I choose is wrong, every position I draw is wrong, and then when I find something I like, I cannot express it as it is portrayed within my minds eye.
Cigarette after cigarette cannot control the pressure on my chest, something, willing it’s way out, something, but I don’t know what it is and I cant put it down in paint or pencil. It is there, a vibrant being of nothingness, controlling my mood until it appears. But how can I paint something that has not shown itself to me? How can I portray it’s visage without knowing what it is? How can I feel that it will be perfect, when I can get it right. But it won’t come out, and it won’t appear, and it is still waiting.
Waiting until I have gone spiraling into the abyss, then appearing before I hit rock bottom. Just enough to take me back out, just enough to reserve my sanity to be broken another day. Just enough to make me happy. But not yet, No, not yet. I am smack dab in the dead fucking center of an Artist’s block.
Random things to draw appear, random Ideas filtering through the ungodly mess, Several paintings are just merely waiting in the background. I shall probably never finish them. Though I have painted them a million times over in my head and several have been started. Until this singular entity is released, I can do nothing of consequence but wait.
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Re: Artist's BLock
by feralucce (Iwouldliketokillyou@gofuckyourself.com)
on Feb 03, 2004 - 09:26 AM
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hollie, dearie... This piece is an incredible work... I have found myself there... on many ocassions... and that... is the fire in my head that needs to be put into a tangible form, or I might explode... I really LOVE THIS PIECE...
Feral
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Re: Artist's BLock
by Psychopixi (psyche.at.psychopixi.dot.com)
on Feb 03, 2004 - 12:19 PM
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I can't draw to save my life, but I do feel the way you described some of the time. I might think up something amazing I would love to get down on paper, or it might just pop into my head unbidden, and it is so frustrating to not be able to draw it. I've tried several times, but the drawing never looks half as good as the picture in my mind and I could scream with annoyance at myself! Maybe I need to practise more to be able to draw well, so I don't get so annoyed at my failures there, but then I suppose I'd be left with artist's block as you described it. I don't think I'll ever be decent at art, but I can certainly feel your pain... especially through this article. :o) Great writing!
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Re: Artist's BLock
by Stille (Stille@fuckingwicked.com)
on Feb 03, 2004 - 10:33 PM
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That's a great one, Linn! I can relate to it extremely well, although I'm more of a writer. Anyway, here are some tricks that work for me. I've found that doing something else works. it doesn't have to be good, just to be an attempt to create other types of art. I use drawing to get me on the writing mood. It works, since it keeps your mind a bit off the problem, to let your ideas gather themselves in your subconscious.And, when no idea seems to stay still, I take a piece of paper and start writing whatever passes through my mind. Always gets my creative juices flowing.
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Re: Artist's BLock
by BlueLinn (avilinn@yahoo.com)
on Feb 09, 2004 - 04:01 PM
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there is no way out of it, especially when you work with a very short ammount of time. Yes, writing sometimes alleviates the stress of an artists block, but it all depends, it all depends on the painting, the idea, and most importantly the time, or the fear of fucking up a perfectly good piece of art with a wrong brush stroke... and then there are deadlines, whether they are personal or set on by others... I don't like deadlines, usually, if I have a deadline, it just takes me that much longer to complete a piece of art. I am a cronic procrastinator... I put everything off until the very last minute. And if art suddenly becomes something I have a deadline for... I know, that if I am rushed, it will not turn out the way I want it to. Thus, I put it off... unfortunately for a while....
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