the synapse

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1:29 PM 10/19/2007

the synapse

When the synapses are working and there is a direct path from mind thru hand to the painting, the painting usually turns out ok; ok, I mean I will accept the solution that appears before me. this doesn’t mean that there won’t be additional “first choice solutions” to go through to allow the painting to continue its path to an end; not a finis, but an end when the “first solution choices” stop forming when focusing on a specific painting.

I often feel, after a short or long break from painting, that maybe the magic has left me. I won’t have any ideas form that will help to make a painting. As usual, 100% of the time I am wrong on this. After a few minutes in the studio after the break, my mink kicks-in with new “first choice solutions” either for new starts or for work on something that is lying about the studio. After these few minutes, I am off and painting again; having fund too.

1:36 PM 10/19/2007 EDT

about 30 minutes ago I had to tear myself away from painting to take lunch. If I don’t eat I get terrible head aches. Earlier today, before I went into the studio, I had high anxiety over the issue that maybe it will be a bad day or an non creative day in the studio. What self doubt! This must plague most artists of all artistic persuasions. Is my muse permanently out of the building? NOT!

Now that I am done with lunch and writing this note, I want to get back to work. I have some things that need adjustment. The “first solution ideas” are operating even now. They may be subliminal, but they are there. Ain’t life great?????????

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