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Maira Kalman

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Roblr:

I feel I should agree with this, but I felt quite the tension when thinking about it. Perhaps, years ago, I would agree with this. But as of this moment, today with my recent progression of work, I am going to have to disagree.

Personally. I disagree.

Overall, I want to agree.

In my last year of work, I feel I have become extremely fit to creating ideas, different concepts at the heat of stress. When my plate is too full, like some gross over-saturated Old Country buffet line. Personally, I think it might be the same excuse as when we procrastinate on homework in high-school kind of scenario.

I tend to throw away any real effort for the problem on hand and start doodling or sketching for something completely absurd. Yet, I tend to somehow hit myself in head to get back on track and out of absolute time-constraint, I correlate the two unrelated subject matters into one idea.



If I somehow make the pairing work on any slightest idea, that stirs my interest, I spend the rest of the project time-line pulling the treads together between the two, to make a cohesive concept.

Yes, this is fucked up. But, working like this mad-monkey-man, I have found developing ideas that otherwise would have never surfaced out of pure structure. Process is king in the creative realm, but the park in which you play is just as important as the process itself.

When not working, relating back to this statement. I purposely empty my mind, to empty it. Literary not trying to think of anything. Perhaps this is some form of self-mediation, I don’t know. But, it is quite a hard lesson/ task to learn to purely empty your mind of any substance of structured life.

Have I lost these wonderful moments? Perhaps. Perhaps, they are force-feed through my head like an squeezed sponge in times of extreme stress.



This ends this morning edition of Robert’s Ramblings.

Have a great day.

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