Experiments are good! 🤗💫❤️
2. For curious minds:
“I need to produce good things. Moreover, I need to produce only good things. Therefore, I cannot waste time on drawings that are not extraordinary. Problem solved.” The paradox of excellence.
It’s a big mistake to fall into that trap. To achieve an acceptable level of mastery, a learning process that includes trial and error is necessary, inevitably resulting in often low-quality outputs. The game of creativity is what is it, and the first step is to accept and use it to your advantage. Avoiding that step out of fear of producing failures or, even worse, awakening the ego would be fatal. The ego will immediately seize any opportunity, raise its voice, and cause havoc, blaming its host for such horrible drawing here or that mistake there. What a shame! The ego will say this would be tolerable for a beginner but unacceptable for someone with experience.
However, the reality is that these failed experiments are the building blocks of a future palace yet to be constructed. Once this is understood and accepted, expecting a highly probable disaster, it is important to develop a new superpower: learning to enjoy the process. Reaching this level is akin to attaining Nirvana I guess. Then you can start the journey with some peace and tranquility.
This page serves as an example: an experimental composition with little hope of producing something useful. How boring it would be to use proven solutions whose outcomes are known in advance. After all, this notebook is an exploration tool, and you can’t expect to gain much from well-trodden ground. The possibilities that open up at this point are endless. It’s overwhelming, so much so that it becomes paralyzing, but that’s another topic to address separately. I’m running out of space here, and not everything can be covered at once. To conclude, experience tells us that often, wonderful things emerge from experimentation that would never have come about otherwise.
“I need to produce good things. Moreover, I need to produce only good things. Therefore, I cannot waste time on drawings that are not extraordinary. Problem solved.” The paradox of excellence.
It’s a big mistake to fall into that trap. To achieve an acceptable level of mastery, a learning process that includes trial and error is necessary, inevitably resulting in often low-quality outputs. The game of creativity is what is it, and the first step is to accept and use it to your advantage. Avoiding that step out of fear of producing failures or, even worse, awakening the ego would be fatal. The ego will immediately seize any opportunity, raise its voice, and cause havoc, blaming its host for such horrible drawing here or that mistake there. What a shame! The ego will say this would be tolerable for a beginner but unacceptable for someone with experience.
However, the reality is that these failed experiments are the building blocks of a future palace yet to be constructed. Once this is understood and accepted, expecting a highly probable disaster, it is important to develop a new superpower: learning to enjoy the process. Reaching this level is akin to attaining Nirvana I guess. Then you can start the journey with some peace and tranquility.
This page serves as an example: an experimental composition with little hope of producing something useful. How boring it would be to use proven solutions whose outcomes are known in advance. After all, this notebook is an exploration tool, and you can’t expect to gain much from well-trodden ground. The possibilities that open up at this point are endless. It’s overwhelming, so much so that it becomes paralyzing, but that’s another topic to address separately. I’m running out of space here, and not everything can be covered at once. To conclude, experience tells us that often, wonderful things emerge from experimentation that would never have come about otherwise.
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