068: My Procrastination

My Procrastination, originally uploaded by gingerpig2000.

Procrastination Station

When I procrastinate, I distract myself with my own thoughts, but that is a little less than interesting to watch. I thought about this shot all day, but then eventually I could not put it off any longer and got my camera out...

Did you know that studying can seriously affect your ability to produce art? And this includes discussing your work with other people from the same field. This seems to be partly an effect of distraction by the influence other others work,and the absorption in gaining craft skills at the expense of cutting out your own niche.

It can be beneficial instead to concentrate on the acquisition of raw data and the post-creation analysis of your own work and others. understanding through teaching is often achieved through a process of comparison with 'great' works or traditional methods. The final result is that your view of the world can become restricted, you lack the vision of an empty horizon that the originator of the great work or tradition had.

It seems to be better if you talk about what you see and feel, and limit your examination of the world to what people are doing in other fields. You have to get out of the cage that is peopled by those competitive to you, and talk to people who are not but who have a different view of the world.