BRIDGE THE VOID.......................... ..................................by louis m schmidt
9.03.2008
(not?) making sense
i just deleted one of the entries on this blogsite, and in doing so, i've realized: now that i've invited "the public" to glance at my world, i've exposed my process to people. it's funny putting up ideas, sketches, experimental projects... then later deciding that they suck. then wondering... "how many people might have visited the blog and saw this stupid idea that i was playing with... that i now think sucks... and that might have turned them off to either scrolling further down and getting into other works, or just forgetting that they ever saw this blog (and my work) to begin with. i wanted my blog to really be like a sketchbook... but like my sketchbook, i'm not going to put stuff in front of people that i think is TOTALLY shitty. my idea of presenting raw drawings, non-bullshit drawings, was that you, my two viewers (tom and shilo) get the stream-of-consciousness experience... like, here it is... here's everything i drew yesterday or last month or last year... good drawings, bad drawings, okay drawings, maybe great drawings... but fuck.. i draw so much more than what i show to people... even when i show people so much of what i draw... there's still some editing happening... i'm not sure how i filter stuff out... how i decide what NOT to show people.. because i want to show people so much... it's part of it, right? not just showing you the gallery ready bullshit, but showing you what the idea or sketch on the NEXT page was... fuck, i don't know... so i deleted the "sentinels (dark connectors)" post. my poetry shit handwritten on some prints. after a few months of looking at it, i've decided the poetry was too fucking cheesy. maybe apart from the photos it's good, or alright, or great, or bullshit, but ON the photos... it's too much. don't judge me.. i'm just trying to be honest. plus, i just drank like, 6 or 7 beers or something. oops...
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3 comments:
drink some more beer and stop thinking so much! i smell what you're steppin in though. i tried to tone down the randomness on my blog-it's an ongoing battle. hey check out banksy's pet shop on the wooster collective site. it's so rad!
I think there's two ways of seeing this -
One is to NOT show any process work - ever. EVER.
The other is to allow anyone to see your sketchbook - the process, all that went into making something, the dead ends and failures.
I'd forget all about this:
> and that might have turned them
> off to either scrolling further
> down and getting into other
> works, or just forgetting that
> they ever saw this blog (and my
> work) to begin with.
Because some random joe blow visitor isn't going to have some intense personal relationship with something they googled on your blog when looking for something to put on their blog about girls and school. And if they did, if they love the stuff you deem good, they're going to think the stuff you think is bad is endearing.
And if someone already has a relationship with your work - don't you think they'd want to see every single scrap of something you've made? Think of your favorite artist and now think - would I like to see their sketchbook? OH HELL YEAH.
The only risk is that some sort of magic would be lost - you'll see that the person is, in fact a human and what they do isn't magically at all, it's probably just a lot of hard work. I mean, do you think it would be fun to be a fly on the wall to see a film being made? Probably for an hour, but not for 6 weeks.
To me, that's the freakin' point. It removes the... probably negative aspect of life - this weird desire we have over inanimate objects.
You can always make a site that is some sort of gallery paradigm - or I mean, put your stuff in a real gallery and then, you can have something that's more like a sketchbook paradigm. Nothing stops you - undedited and edited. Use them as tools, with a different purpose.
I kind of get rid of the idea that, "some people will not like me if they see the shit mixed in with the gold" by having two sites and the sketchbook site is authored under a thinly-veiled alter ego - and I'm going to post under this alter-ego and see if you can figure out who I may be, just like in, "This is Your Life".
It satisfies my hunger to create and share as much as I'd like and it also allows me to present the work in some sort of "finished" (abandoned) state. I think other artists are going to want to see your sketchbook a lot more than what's in the gallery.
I was actually talking to shannon today about making some sort of software that better creates a, "sketchbook" type of thingy. Blog software isn't cutting it for me, it would be nice to have something specific for visual shit.
Oh and sketchbooks - real sketchbooks get lost and destroyed, you're going to want to have some sort of copy in 10 years and you're going to want to reflect back and see the subtle stories you've been developing, so I say, put everything you want up, never take anything away;
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