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Whoo! I think I figured out how this visual art thing works:
Like writing, it works best when you create it before you forget the emotions that spawned it. UN-like writing, I can't just jot down notes and re-grasp a shadow of the feelings later and have that be more or less ok. Once the feeling is gone, it's way harder to recapture a visual image from written-down notes.
Also, brushes are highly over-rated. Fingernails and hands work best. I should have guessed.
Finally... scary shit can come out visually. But it's a lot more hidden and subtle that words, even while being more raw and open. People won't know what it means unless I tell them. No wonder artists always give their works such weird names.
I think I'm going to like this. I'm just afraid that I'm imitation SOMEONE who just turned 46 a few days ago, to be doing visual stuff, combining it with words. I've always written kind of abstract "poems" and had random weird visual-art impulses... I just feel weird about it. But if he can publish books of that sort of stuff... why can't I?
Now, how do I get Payne's Grey out of my cuticles and an agent? ;)
Like writing, it works best when you create it before you forget the emotions that spawned it. UN-like writing, I can't just jot down notes and re-grasp a shadow of the feelings later and have that be more or less ok. Once the feeling is gone, it's way harder to recapture a visual image from written-down notes.
Also, brushes are highly over-rated. Fingernails and hands work best. I should have guessed.
Finally... scary shit can come out visually. But it's a lot more hidden and subtle that words, even while being more raw and open. People won't know what it means unless I tell them. No wonder artists always give their works such weird names.
I think I'm going to like this. I'm just afraid that I'm imitation SOMEONE who just turned 46 a few days ago, to be doing visual stuff, combining it with words. I've always written kind of abstract "poems" and had random weird visual-art impulses... I just feel weird about it. But if he can publish books of that sort of stuff... why can't I?
Now, how do I get Payne's Grey out of my cuticles and an agent? ;)
