Things I said that I didn't mean
Hello out there,
In the long story of learning to let things come and go, it’s usually the letting go that takes up my attention, asking for practice.
So, it’s worth noting how it feels now: with the light that is beginning to last into the evening, with the appearance of the bright colors of spring against whatever has been here for so long.
How does it feel?
Brit
Algorithm Free Art
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I never struggled too much with wondering if I was a Real Artist. Perhaps it’s because my learning was so private- mostly at home, on my own, and I wasn’t surrounded by people who cared about delineating “great art” from not-great art, or “real artists” from everyone else. Maybe it was because I was older, and had had parallel universe debates about other identities, as a years-long distraction from actually living out those things with the mix of self trust and humility I finally, finally learned.
In any case, I knew that being a Real Anything was a party trick.
It seemed descriptive to think of myself as an artist given that I was painting whenever I could (nothing romantic- just, after work, at night when I couldn’t sleep, etc.), so I began to. The most important part is to make something. It doesn’t have to be good. The making, the having made, is what matters.
“Being an Artist,” 2022, prints available
I take it back I take it back
what I’d give
to lift the impression
I left
To shake out the lie
(the part about you)
from the truth
(my pain)
“Didn’t mean” @britchida 2022, prints available
a beautiful day with a gut feeling something is wrong / a portrait of anxiety
I just finished another notebook. I have one that I use for everything. It’s a mix of the most and least important things that float through my life. I’m just constantly taking notes.
In one way or another I’ve done this since I was a kid. I started doing it in a steadier way about ten years ago, and began numbering my notebooks then. This was volume 27.
When I finish one I usually look back through it for anything I need to carry forward to my new book. I came across this sketch and really liked it.
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