Sally Mann's new book, ART WORK
SO. DAMN. GOOD. Haven't been this inspired reading a book with creativity/art making as the topic since Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel (and that was several years ago). In addition to many others, here are a few of the excerpts I stopped to make note of: I have learned that, even on some uninspired days I can't create, I can always make work. Indeed this is truly the case. Unfortunately, I still tend to argue with my inability to create INSTEAD OF moving forward onto - work. Write a letter. Organize. Make lists. Clean out the chicken coop. Practice your craft. Do your scales. Memorize a sonnet. Copy a Rembrandt. Over and over. Do all this so you will be prepared to come roaring back when you have something unignorable and irrepressible to say AND YOU WILL It is the artist's job to facilitate unlikely connections between things. Left to me were the exiguous foot paths of art and writing...and those ...
