My mom was watching instagram reels as I was trying to talk to her. “What?” “What?” She would say. I got fed up and thought “instagram is pointless” as I sadistically opened up YouTube shorts. My mom would try and tell me about a recipe or something, then ~ “what?” I would say.
I got fed up… one can’t multitask well with anything so one can’t even think and infinitely scroll! I said ‘we have to turn off reels; they are melting our brains!’ ‘They are stupid and pointless!!’ I exclaimed to my mom imploring she should put down her phone!
‘But I found a useful one’ she said. ‘It had good advice’ she said. I asked what the reel was about and she said… she said it was advice that was given to an artist saying “painters paint.” Painters paint ~ so simple yet so profound.
If I want to be a painter I need to actually paint! Im a cat owner cause I play my with my pet cats. I was a vaper when I vaped. So if I want to be a painter I must paint!
In order to be or identify as someone one must do what that type of person would do. It seems basic and is; so basically I can’t call myself a painter if I don’t paint. And in my free time I must paint ~ cause I’m a painter.
Not: since I paint, Im a painter. That is not as deep & profound. It’s: painters paint. Im a painter so I must paint. Because… painters paint. That’s what I do so I should do it.
And I got in a little good painting in this week! Just two short studio sessions.
This week I had a little hour time chunk free and I didn’t want to spend the time starting on my new idea and trying to figure it all out… But I wanted to paint. Another day I had another hour and didn’t want it to disappear into the big painting I’m working on ~ the one, one might see on instagram where the painter person flips around the canvas and the words ‘60 hours’ pop up over a montage of painting …but I wanted to paint! So I just painted something stupid for fun and it’s turning out pretty cool. 😀
Bye
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