Setting up for more work

Each drawing or painting starts with a map...

As I work this fall, it becomes increasingly clear that I need to regulate my work flow - to have a steady supply of projects to work on. Things break down when execution gets ahead of generation.

There are a lot of problems with this - working from others' writing means I have to have time to read and digest the ideas. The geometry of the signal flags is kind of complicated for me; finding the right size and making the texts fit take a good deal of finesse.

I have been slowed down on some projects by delays in fabrication, so have had to find other work to keep me moving forward. I am starting to plan a panel slightly larger than the drawings I have been working on, and will be getting some texts laser cut for new sign pieces at Tyler's Digital Fabrication studio this week. Hopefully that will help me regain my stride...

That said, I am still interested in making work slowly - slowly enough that I can see my next move. I remember Richard Torchia talking about making work slowly once in a lecture, so slowly that (paraphrasing) 'hindsight becomes intent'. That seems very important to me in this world where too much art is made too quickly. Slow work allows for aspects to come into the work that were not planned, welcome ideas, other ways for people to see it.

Or at least that's what I tell myself...