Red Hot Art Fest just wrapped up an hour ago. It was pretty cool, but I will write about that later when I can get all the pics and such together.
I noticed a reoccurring theme with how I handle events like this. Similar to the way, super busy people get sick after a long stretch of business since they finally have “time” to get sick, I seem to have a sort of purging nature after an exhibition too. This is especially true after the last few months since we basically had some sort of art event each month since February.
Take the below with a grain of salt. As Arika would say “You just have a poopy diaper” haha.
Epic.
Anywho, here is usually how my routine works:
- Come home from the show and flop on the couch for a few minutes without unpacking any artwork from my truck.
- Take a massive dump to get rid of a weeks worth of badness I consumed leading up to and during the event. Last week I took in a lot of frozen burritos and coffee and booze.
- Take a shower.
- Check my email and delete pages of spam I have been neglecting over the previous few weeks.
- Reply to all the emails and phone calls from friends, loved ones – and in the case of the last few weeks respond to voice mails of people looking to rent my extra room.
- Sit on the porch and chain smoke while I think about all the non-art related crap I have to do
- Watch stupid videos on the internet to forget all the stuff I just thought about
In the next week or so I will:
- Think of lots of new series ideas based on what I learned at the event, which will not, however, ever come to fruition.
- Think of lots of ideas for software and website ideas that I will never have time or resources to do
- Get bummed out about never working on my comic
- Get bummed out about how I am going to be 2x in y months and have not accomplished a lot of the ideas above
- Come to the revelation that I need to worry about my health more and start working out hardcore for about a week at which point I will start spending my time working on the above ideas only to get sucked into some other project/series/idea.
- While working on the above ideas, relapse into eating poorly and smoking a lot
- Return to the state of being to busy to immediately respond to friends’ voicemails and emails and ultimately never reply because I forget about them.
- Start getting bummed that I don’t maintain my friendships enough or go to enough concerts/galleries, etc.
- Try to rekindle a friendship I have neglected with a night at the bar – drink too much, make an ass of myself, and feel like shit the next day.
- Get bummed that I am not exercising more.
- Start working on the next show since you realize that it is only a month away.
- Random events (birthdays, parties, roadtrips), get in the way of making artwork in spite of supporting the social desire described above.
- Show up to the show with only a few new works since somehow I just didn’t have enough time to do a lot of new work.
- Realize the artwork you did make was mediocre and be sort of embarrassed when your friends show up to your opening and realize they have seen everything before (even if it was in your basement mid-progress).
- Get bummed out since you realize you have not made anything “good” for quite some time.
- Take down the show in a cloud of personal defeat.
- Start over.
So yes, for my faithful readers, expect in the coming weeks to hear me talk about how i need to start exercising more and quit smoking and change things in my life. Bare with me, it will pass shortly thereafter. haha.
In other news, THIS is pretty awesome!
