. So many times I wandered around without knowing what to paint. Quite desperate at times, others more relaxed. Allowing myself to go through my moment.
As a painter it happens to me many times when I have nothing to paint. Or I can't think of anything. Or I feel that every idea is too bad. Although sometimes I know that it is not bad that this happens, many other times I feel guilty. For not producing, for feeling like I'm wasting my time, etc etc. But there is a time. A necessary lapse of maturation of ideas.
Some people don't need it, but I definitely need some time for things to decant. Sometimes I rush ideas, I run them, I force them, I drown them, and this ends up being more terrible than going a little blank.
Going blank can be productive. Maybe it's a break, or maybe there is something that could be gestating in that emptiness. It happens to me that after those blanks I get a revealing, interesting idea. But it's happening to me that I'm not giving it the time. Then there is a succession of artworks that do not fill me up. That for some reason they don't connect with me. And I paint one and then I paint another, but there is no "that which I know is missing". And it happens to me more and more. Less blank times (to be filled) and more paintings that only walk on the surface. But beware, this is also a creative process. Maybe it's not the one I'm used to, but surely I get something out of it that I haven't managed to reveal yet.
At the moment I have three parallel series in process. It may not seem so strange, but in my case it is. Clearly my head is scattered and not focused. Some people work like that. I'm beginning to notice, or I think I'm interpreting, that this means I'm not diving into my ideas as I like. They feel a bit forced. I'm having a hard time. I'm finding it hard to focus the energy. I hope it's temporary. That's all.
This is a 50 x 70 cm painting that I painted in one of those moments. And it made me very happy! I didn't get to anything. Nothing else came out of it other than the simple fact of creating it, enjoying myself while painting, and arriving at a result, for me, interesting. I played some more with the palette and with the shapes. I even started painting the canvas in horizontal format but then the image "asked me to rotate it".
What a pleasure when these things happen. When you silence the guilt a little and let yourself be. Sometimes that's all it's good for, a pause in time, a passing enjoyment that leaves its smiles.
That's all for today. Ideas without closing, and no guilt on the horizon (today, of course haha).