Steps, the prompt talks about taking steps as a way to build a habit. If your "habit" is art, there is another part you need to remember. What I learned when I started taking art classes and really working at learning painting, drawing, photography, collage, printmaking etc, was that steps are not linear. I thought "If I learn A then I can go on to B and then to C etc and I will get better at each step."
Seriously not so. Art is far from linear, it is circular. Learning a bit about B reveals the flaws in your mastery of A and C does the same for both A and B when you try that! Printing feeds into painting and both of them feed into photography, which feeds back. Art, for me is a huge circular staircase designed by Escher and you never come to the end, to "mastery". Also, you have to step back now and then for distance to provide more clarity than the close up study gives. You have to learn to love circularity.
Below is a staircase from inside the Vatican. A gloss medium transfer of an inkjet print.
1 comment:
I love the way in which the same prompt provokes such different thoughts...and finished page as well. that's a fantastic staircase...and you are spot on about it being a circular process and not a linear one, too.
Lovely image, beautifully presented/
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