ON BEING boring
(what will you do with) THIS DARK HORSE 30x40, acrylic on canvas, 2025 After twenty years of "creating every day", all different types of employment, not to mention starting another small business, while continuing to paint, exhibit and sell my work regularly, I finally am understanding where my "peak performance" lies as an artist. At the start of the new year in January 2024, I decided to evoke an experiment. I would dedicate the entire five months (at the minimum of 5 days a week) to art making in my studio (different than my create everyday approach). I wanted to give myself an opportunity to try to show up for studio work every day without allowing external forces to distract me. I remember I had ongoing issues with my health insurance and a car accident that could have been giant distractions (or I would have allowed them to be). I mean my health insurance was accidentally canceled (!!!!!) and it took several months for me to straighten this out...
