staying focused can be detrimental
Looping brown noise, rumbling in my noise-canceling headphones, blocking out distractions, numbing my radar
Leave room for x quantities
You don’t know what that pot is going to be yet
maybe I shoud use a psuedonym and spell it in all lowercase like bell hooks
microaggression + transgression = microtransgression
an indirect, subtle statement or action by members of a marginalized group that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct. Microtransgressions often reclaim power and subjectivity by crossing boundaries that maintain oppression, but not enough to jeopardize one's own safety.
can the constraints of binary thought be a good thing?
anxiety is the dizziness of freedom
having constraints is liberating
what happens when you don’t have a “studio?”
the greatest freedom is to have no choice
“In a medium like clay, anything can be done and I think that’s dangerous. It’s too fluid, too fascile. The very freedom is a kind of anti-sculpture to me.
trying to read about how other people interpret “live the questions now” defeats the purpose
a moving target
spend enough time in a place and it starts to feel more like home than the place you grew up in
spend enough time doing something new and it starts to feel like more of your identity than what you thought your identity was
minds are like filing cabinets
“formulate a theory that fits the evidence retrospectively”
“when you see something beautiful, buy it. Instead, when you see something beautiful, begin to repair the injuries of the world”
unselfing/radical decentering
the antidote to anxiety is control
to make art with critical inquiry and NOT make it look good is doing a disservice to the message. sunday’s best/black panthers looked fly/jan 6ers looked like shit
3rd world country with a gucci belt on
try to make 20 ten million dollar movies, instead of one 200 million dollar movie
wrestling vs. art: wrestling has a time limit (getting old/injured), art is a lifelong endeavor. There are no wins and losses, just data going into the same bucket.