Art Motivation & Me

As a creative I often struggle with motivation. Initially I am really easily motivated but as soon as I make a small error or a failure I struggle to keep up with anything. For instance I was doing #Inktober an instagram drawing challenge and I missed a day. Because I missed a day I missed 10 days. I feel like missing that one day made me fall into this big deep hole where nothing I created ever seems good enough to me so why would I bother. I made this piece last weekend when I was feeling a lack of direction in my work

Maybe it's my quarter life crisis maybe I just need to broaden my horizons and get off instagram I don't know but sometimes I feel no matter how much my work is praised it will never be good enough for my high standards. I spent a lot of time trying to detangle my own identity from my work. I think this piece is really bourne out of realising that they will always somehow be intertwined.

“Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.” - John Berger
Creating work about oneself contains equal parts solitude and narcissism. But for me it was cathartic.

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