Tag: misconceptions
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My connection to art making recently took a more curatorial turn. As I’ve showed in my last post, I was drawn back to work I had made in 2020 and made a small book from that work that I published. I feel very proud of the book and the revisiting this watercolour work in such a positive way has been helpful to me. My association with past work hasn’t always been a good one. Looking back on things I have made can sometimes be clouded by unwarranted self doubt. But I saw my own sense of beauty in the small…
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Read a post where an artist said that they weren’t a perfectionist because they weren’t high achieving, were impatient, and not competitive. I don’t want to police anyone else’s view of themselves but can say from personal experience that perfectionism doesn’t need to have any of the things above to be true. Perfectionism can be messy and mid-performing. It can be fraught with impatience. It can be a purely solo competition.