It’s not that I’m not working, I do work on a regular basis, but not every day. Lately the work that I’ve been completing hasn’t really given me that spark that my best stuff does. I’m starting to wonder if my approach, intentionally trying to be unintentional, has run it’s course. I’m also having trouble maintaining a consistent, unified style without being repetitive and boring. I don’t want to be doing the same painting over and over again, such a big part of what I do is experimentation, exploring various approaches and techniques. It’s as if my mantra were, “Let’s see what happens if I do this.” I feel like I have two choices here. Keep doing what I’m doing and push through the slump. Completely change direction and start doing figurative and representational work again. Or just do whatever I want and forget about stylistic consistency.
I’ve started to try to draw every day. I’m doing portraits from photographs. Going through some of my old drawings from the 80s and 90s I’ve found that I used to draw much better than I do now. I’m not sure I’ll ever get back to that level, which is kind of frustrating.
I know I just have to keep pounding on it until I can’t anymore.
Oh and my shoulder is feeling much better, the best it has since the original injury almost a year ago now.
