Mood:
crushed outTopic: art in progress
Just finished painting for today. Already thinking about the next painting. It's size, colors, and subject matter. Tomorrow when I go to the museum for my volunteer job I'm bringing a sketch book.
Been working hard at painting. Every day. Last night I had a dream where I had an extra eye on top of my right eyelid. It had no pupil but it was certainly a third eye on my face. Mike said I ought to dream it again and move it to the proper place in the center of my forehead but I said, nah, it was where it was supposed to be.
Last month I posted about a religious experience. One thing that I didn't mention was that my spiritual friend told me that on Geodone I would be able to have better communication with the Other World. I think that my dream of an eye over an eye has to do with my picture making ability or strength of imagination.
I'm going to making paintings that will make people want to possess them. They will see it hanging in a gallery and think to themself "I want that in my home so that I can look at it every day. I must have it, it must be mine." I get that way about art in galleries, but, it is a rare painting that can do it. In museums I used to play a game with myself. I'd say to myself, "If I could take only one painting home with me, which painting would that be?" Sometimes I'll be in an art gallery and I'll get really mad and frustrated because there isn't a picture in the place that I would want to take home. I wonder if people have gone crazy, making boring trivial stuff, what is wrong with them? I want to shake them and shout at them, "Put long hours and hard work into your art! Take risks! Astonish me, make me envious!"
Oh, how I love to be beat. I love to gaze upon strong, visionary talent. I love to be outdone.
