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Plants, a chair, a keyboard, wires, bowls and pots
oil on card, 18.5 x 15.5 cm - unavailable
I am experimenting with very contained periods of work- exactla an hour. The idea here is that one will not tire for the next day, and that one will learn to work more efficiently, swiftly.
Boice and A Working Method
I am an efficient worker. I`ve almost never had creative block. But I was reading a review of Robert Boice`s Professors as Writers: A self-help Guide to Productive Writing, and thought it might be fun to experiment with some of his principles.
To summarise, he is rather sceptical of "inspiration" and believes that writing should be the product of daily sessions, which should neither overrun nor fall short of, their alloted time.
My time is exactly an hour and my process is as follows: I work on ten pictures, one after the other in a rolling sequence. Thus, I work on the first for approximately two minutes before moving onto the second, and then the third and so on, until I reach number ten and then I return to number one.
This allows me time to view each picture afresh, and allows the paint time to settle. Also, it forces me to suspend judgement over pictures, so that I don't immediately jettison or revise works that might at first appear unsatisfactory. This way my critical instincts are held in check for at least 18 minutes.
At the end of the session I look over the pictures, and usually discard the one or two obvious failures. Then, over the next days, I look over them again, getting rid of more: usually I keep one, sometimes I keep few.
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