It's one thing to work on an individual piece, finish it, and then proceed to the next one, but for myself, by creating numerous pieces at once has spawned a birth of ideas I did not see before.
Progress is going well, although I am in the refining stages on most of my sculptures. Lots of sanding, lots of tweaking, and finally priming surfaces for painting. On top of good progress has also come some failure as well. I started working on a piece that I quickly became fixed on, rushed the crafting and building process and soon discovered some of my building techniques were not sound from the beginning.
Learning from failures has always been difficult for me. Artwork is no different for me than that of my personal life, they are one and the same. When this piece I was making began show its flaws, I got upset, took off all of the flawed elements of the piece, and told myself to start over. This is not a new concept to me, though I have rarely done it so far into a work of art. It seems so fitting because the art that I am creating is touching on my fear of finishing things.
Since I was 4 or 5 I have been semi afraid of finishing things: books, tv shows, and art. I don't simply see this piece as a definition of who I'm becoming, but also who I was. Giving up is easy, simple, and disastrous, which is why I'm so excited to continue. New ideas can come about, an entirely new concept can be created. Perseverance is key to this visual language taking a successful shape, and I'm very confident even in my failures that I can create a successful tool to spark a conversation about fears.
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