Monday, July 5, 2021

From Helen Terry as Muse - Daily Mark Making a Series July 5, 2021

 Often when I spend time on something that doesn't directly contribute to making work - reading, drawing, mark-making - my mind starts running on all the things I think I should be doing instead.  Which pulls my attention away from what I'm doing and creates a conflict between what the experience could be and what it actually is.  I think part of the value of a regular practice lies in assigning time for something and giving it your full attention.  Giving yourself a chance to notice something you didn't already know.  I'm not always particularly good at doing this.  


So, at New Year I started a daily mark-making practice.  The aim being just to explore my own marks and give myself a chance to experiment.  To avoid the New Year Resolution thing, I started the day I went back to work instead.  And I committed to 40 days - long enough to see the impact yet short enough to feel achievable.  I knew that to be sustainable it also had to be easy - so that on the worst day there would be no excuse for not maintaining it.  So there was only one rule - one page a day, any mark, any medium.  A single line would count. 



 

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