Mistakes I’ve made before, and keep making.

The question is: are these mistakes? Patterns? Can they be avoided, modified? Am I doomed to make them again and again? - Originally called Mars Violettica.

The question is: are these mistakes? Patterns? Can they be avoided, modified?

Am I doomed to make them again and again?

I’m talking particularly about New Project Syndrome.

It goes something like this:

1. I start running in circles with my current endeavours. I don’t know what to do next after a period of prolific creation, where I feel I found my “thing” and I make and make a series of drawings that feel cohesive, beautiful, expressive and most of all, mine. One day, I come to my work table and suddenly I’m not feeling it anymore. But I find a huge pile of work. I begin to feel daunted: what will I do with all of this?

2. I begin to think in “business-like” terms. I should sell some of this. My marketing hat falls on my head and I begin to scheme and revise all my business materials. I go down the rabbit hole of photographing, setting up products and hoping and praying that something will find…