Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Daunting... what's the point of it? GO


I was nervous
I needed a release
Acid ouch
What to do
Draw
Draw hard
On my body
On the wall
On something
Go
In red

DON'T BE AFRAID



Sometimes...
                               When I have a lot to do, I freeze. I become afraid of failure, unable to begin any of the work at all. My brain is locked. I don't have the key.

But then I draw, I let my thoughts flyyyyy out of the cages and SOAR onto the paper. The wall. The dress form. The table. The dish. The mantel.

Art sets my mind free, makes me ready for anything. It soothes me. It organizes my thoughts. It prepares me. 

So I did this today, wrote "DON'T BE AFRAID" on my dress form. I purposefully did it in red. For passion. GO. 

And for some reason, after I finished writing out the phrase, I felt better. It was like for the first time I admitted that procrastination comes from a place of fear, a fear of failure. I acknowledged it, kicked it in the ASS, smiled, and moved on. 

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