Artist Way Meeting: Week Nine

Week #9: Recovering a Sense of Compassion

Morning Pages

Morning Evening

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This week, I wrote a lot about living in the Midwest, and how it affected me just being me. I was often shamed, humiliated, and abused.

Artist Date

I went to Creativity Explored to visit their current show called Dance Party! Then visited the library to scan the art magazines.

Exercises

Section 1) Fear - “Procrastination is not laziness, it is fear. Fear of not being good enough. Fear of failure.” “The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all”

Section 2) Enthusiasm - I disagree about discipline. It takes discipline to clean, to stop, to eat...

Section 3) Creative U-Turns - grieving about rejection from grad school, AIR’s, and local group show with good financing.

Section 4) Blasting Through Blocks - List resentments and fears

#2) Visualizing - amazing clean studio with stocked kitchen

#3) Priorities - Year, Month, and Week goals

Last Week’s Action List

X 1) Test carving sticks for torches

X 2) Test gluing mirror shards for hanging sculpture

X 3) Research on how to cut glass

  4) Review art website on large computer

X 5) Research art museums in Berlin for 1 hour  [½ hour]

  6) Research art galleries in Berlin for 2 hours

  7) Review AIR in Berlin for 1 hour

Next Week’s Action List

o	Test goldleafing branch and setting on fire
o	Test using wood rasp
o	Review art website on large computer
o	Research art museums in Berlin for 1 hour
o	Research art galleries in Berlin for 2 hours
o	Review AIR in Berlin for 1 hour