I am pleased to say that I reached my goal of working on my latest Hole Punch Pointillism for 10 hours this past week. Please enjoy this animated gif showing the progress.
SIDENOTE: There are a lot of people who feel very strongly about how to pronounce gif and after falling down an internet rabbit-hole on the origin of that word and all the various people who have weighed in on this issue and many contentious articles that said words like gift or giraffe proved their point as to how it should be pronounced, it then occurred to me that I don’t really care. #igiveup
My plan is to continue adding to this animation as I work toward my estimated 80 hours to create this artwork.
I thought about doing an actual time-lapse to show all that goes into this process, but the size of the artwork paired with where I am working on it made recording video not feasible. However, I am already thinking of my next series and how fun it would be to create a time-lapse to show the artwork from start to finish. #futuregoals
It is clear to me that I wouldn’t have made this progress if I hadn’t set the intention of working on it 10 hours a week and also had accountability of sharing my progress.
It ended up not being 1.5 hours every day, instead I used that as a guide. For example, one day I ended up working on it for 3 hours, while another day I only did 30 minutes.
There is a something about having a combination of both structure and flexibility that works well for me, but I’m still learning how to apply it.
Without any kind of structure to identify a goal and establish a process of how to go about reaching that goal, the chance of it happening for me is pretty slim. There are many ideas I’ve had that never went any further than a fleeting thought or possibly a scribble in a sketchbook or notepad. (We can discuss my clap-on clap-off stadium lights at a future time)
On the other hand, if there is too much structure or “have to’s” about a process, I find myself either feeling constricted or just resisting the idea. Not sure what that is, but when I ignore that feeling it rarely goes well. According to Dean “If Mama ain’t happy, she is most likely gonna want to talk about it at length to the nearest person and in a 2-person office there’s only so many times I can pretend to take a call or work in our sound booth alone so please do whatever you need to make all the verbal processing stop.” #poorguy
I definitely haven’t cracked-the-code on the structure/flexibility dynamic (and quite possibly there isn’t a code to crack) but I’ll start with noticing the value of having both in the mix and see where percolating on that leads me.
Let me know what you’ve been working on or how you have been approaching your current goals. I’ll check in next week for the 20 hour update.
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