Rachael McCallum's Unicorn Spew,

Rachael McCallum's UnicornSpew ~The online journal of Artness as-it-happens.


Sunday 20 April 2014

Precious potential

potential is beautiful.

In one stream of logic it is better than the final product... because imagination can let it become more that it could be in real life.
potential is amazing, as a thought.
but to be disappointed purely because you sought to use the poyential and it isnt the wonder you sought isnt a shame, its a moment of opinion int the making process.... soon you can see how your final decisions became reality and not be too hard on yourself.

potential is beautiful, but I think contentment is stupefying.  if your going to leave 'it', what ever you are considering, you lose the potential to be replaced by waste.

Odd,isnt it.

-  for an example >> if we are talking about a page within a book that you want to draw on (like i did) and if you were to appreciate the space and beauty of the potential of the blank, free, space, and decided to leave the page - where is the line (?) that distinguishes the following pages to be less valuable, to be finally, marked? (assuming you have a finite book and not an infinite supply)

maybe it is because there is a finite supply that things become precious. actually of course. If there is lots of paper everywhere we could leave it on the streets and it would be weird to appreciate the plain (haha)

Being afraid of a beautiful page, afraid to mark, might have more to do with not trusting yourself/myself to make a make a drawing worth the space it takes up.
Or maybe it has to do with respect to paper and process.
Or maybe its potential - dazzling as a concept in itself, the decision is to leave the page and look to the next. ad infinitum.

what a ramble!