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Saturday, August 24, 2002
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Some of you might be wondering when this "playing with blocks" table drawing thing is going to stop and I'll do something of value, like some writing. Or at least do some "real art," whatever that is. Come to think of it, you know, you probably don't care one way or another actually.
No one else is doing this as far as I can tell. And I don't think many people are paying much attention. I've got this little niche all to myself. If you want to see a grownup playing with colored blocks, I'm your boy.
But I do think of this question now and then - OK, more frequently than now and then - and I don't see an end in sight. I don't think I can stop. I don't want to stop. I don't know why I should even be thinking I should stop. I don't know why I'm even worried about whether or not I should even be thinking about whether or not to keep doing it.
So that's it. I'm going to keep doing it. Because I like it.
See, I don't know what I'm going to do everyday. I'm just looking for a way to make something in this very limited medium. Everyday is like turning a page in a sketchbook, and like a sketchbook some things are better than others. Some things lead nowhere and just need to be dropped, and some things trigger an idea or way to do something and then before I know it I've got a five or seven day series going.
And I need things to look at, and I need things that have been mediated by my own eyes and brain. I like the abstraction from vision, words, situations, sounds, and feelings processed somehow and put back out visually. I've always done that. And this little phase I'm going through is just another small piece of all that. So sorry, no writing today, again.
I want to point again to the Artforum piece by Daniel Pinchbeck about his father Peter Pinchbeck. I think there is something important being said here about the value of art, the pursuit and labor of doing it, the personal meaning and reasons to do what we do, the complete luck and artifice of "success," and the complexity of families and generations.
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Catherine, are you guys going to put down your home improvements tools tomorrow long enough to run in Willie's 10k for Farm Aid?
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