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roachboy · 12-20-2007, 03:57 PM

kramus--the craft behind these is imposing...thanks for putting them up. there is alot of information to process, so after my first go-through, i kinda prefer center and the "cindy" piece--there are a bunch of others that i liked, but if i want to write this i have to stop scrolling up and down..so i'll come back and maybe say other things about other pieces.

the other thing...

aside:
i have a difficult time putting things out into the world.
i tell myself i'm going to do it, and often i start, but then things get blurry--not physically, but more as a project.
i dont know why this is exactly: i can't quite figure it out.
i feel like i'm doing stuff now that need to have their own lives, so am thinking about this all over again.

the thing:
i wouldn't necessarily choose between styles--i would just alternate between them. make a rotation-like. if you want to go in direction x or y, feature it more for a while and then let it slide back into a routine. it seems to me that maintaining routines--practice--is the central thing. if what you're doing refers mostly to how you get to the place of doing it, then it hardly matters what other folk think of it---not that it isn't nice to hear folk like stuff and a drag to hear they don't---but the motor is your own work, what you do.

on why other people can't tell you if your work is any good or not.

besides, often what people say is a function of being polite as much as anything else--if you come offstage after a performance, everyone who is inclined to talk to you will tell you they liked it. and that's nice---but they can't tell you how it was, can't tell you if your work was as you'd like it to be, if you felt that piece a or b "hit" in ways that other pieces didn't. so there's always a distance between folk's perception of your stuff, and within that their selection of pieces or elements that they like, and how you might think of a particular piece, or of your own stuff more broadly.

it seems like the nature of the beast. you have to figure out for yourself what you want to work on, which way you want to go, etc..other people can't decide. they can just say i like x or i like y.

random personal aside
i like stuff that has a good craft base behind it. i like other things too, but i dont know, i respect craft and people who pursue it.

synthetic part
all the above is cheerleading.

the other thing
alot of the images look like they'd be happy living in books as much as living on walls--do you do anything in that format?

personally, i think you might consider a broader approach to getting stuff out into the world, in more places, via more routes.

grand conclusion drawn from anecdotal evidence
galleries--->strange business.
they seem mostly about which parties you get invited to.
it's most odd, that world.

12-20-2007, 03:57 PM	#21 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	kramus--the craft behind these is imposing...thanks for putting them up. there is alot of information to process, so after my first go-through, i kinda prefer center and the "cindy" piece--there are a bunch of others that i liked, but if i want to write this i have to stop scrolling up and down..so i'll come back and maybe say other things about other pieces. the other thing... aside: i have a difficult time putting things out into the world. i tell myself i'm going to do it, and often i start, but then things get blurry--not physically, but more as a project. i dont know why this is exactly: i can't quite figure it out. i feel like i'm doing stuff now that need to have their own lives, so am thinking about this all over again. the thing: i wouldn't necessarily choose between styles--i would just alternate between them. make a rotation-like. if you want to go in direction x or y, feature it more for a while and then let it slide back into a routine. it seems to me that maintaining routines--practice--is the central thing. if what you're doing refers mostly to how you get to the place of doing it, then it hardly matters what other folk think of it---not that it isn't nice to hear folk like stuff and a drag to hear they don't---but the motor is your own work, what you do. on why other people can't tell you if your work is any good or not. besides, often what people say is a function of being polite as much as anything else--if you come offstage after a performance, everyone who is inclined to talk to you will tell you they liked it. and that's nice---but they can't tell you how it was, can't tell you if your work was as you'd like it to be, if you felt that piece a or b "hit" in ways that other pieces didn't. so there's always a distance between folk's perception of your stuff, and within that their selection of pieces or elements that they like, and how you might think of a particular piece, or of your own stuff more broadly. it seems like the nature of the beast. you have to figure out for yourself what you want to work on, which way you want to go, etc..other people can't decide. they can just say i like x or i like y. random personal aside i like stuff that has a good craft base behind it. i like other things too, but i dont know, i respect craft and people who pursue it. synthetic part all the above is cheerleading. the other thing alot of the images look like they'd be happy living in books as much as living on walls--do you do anything in that format? personally, i think you might consider a broader approach to getting stuff out into the world, in more places, via more routes. grand conclusion drawn from anecdotal evidence galleries--->strange business. they seem mostly about which parties you get invited to. it's most odd, that world. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 12-20-2007 at 04:04 PM..