Attitude Issues

Sometimes I’m passionately involved in sorting through lots of strategies for making images usually referred to as “The Process”.  The great almighty “process”.  Let’s talk about what the process is supposed to do and why it’s so revered.

1.  It is a doorway to surprising and unpredictable psychic events and feelings from the unconscious. So the artist can go deeper into the well for new material. 

2.  To “process” an image the artist must be in present moment time and wrestle up close with powerful forces (hopefully) that will produce an image with “presence”.  In other words an image that will live in the psyche in some way. 

3.  The artist must not control the image and decide beforehand the outcome or he/she will kill the process. 

4.  Often “mixed media” with it’s variey of mark making possibilities offers a good starting place for the artist.  Those materials provide an open door for exploration of “the process”.