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Sunday, March 18, 2007

only the boring get...overwhelmed?

John Baldessari. (American, born 1931). I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art. 1971. Lithograph, composition: 22 3/8 x 29 9/16" (56.8 x 75.1 cm); sheet: 22 7/16 x 30 1/16" (57 x 76.4 cm). Publisher: The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax. Printer: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Lithography Workshop, Halifax. Edition: 50. John B. Turner Fund. © 2007 John Baldessari

And I can't tell you how often I've told others and thought to myself that my sketchbook is a tool against boredom. If I am making lines and shapes on a piece of paper, I am not sitting in a lump doing nothing. Only the boring get bored.

Lately, though, as the busy has overwhelmed my day job, my free time, my spare moments and other moments and I've been pining for the big nothing. Time to simply be. Moments not promised to anyone else and the art that might be spurred from that time, place, lack of pressure.

Don't know what it would be but it would not be boring. Couple of days off this week won't hurt...

take care,
Rachael

Posted at 08:20 am by balduffington

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