So this week, some interesting things happened that I have felt the impetus to write about in a more rigorous manner, so I’m currently working on something a bit meatier. Stay tuned for updates.

We’re here for the second weekly installment of what I got up to this week!

I’ve been working on some things recently, so haven’t really been writing anything for the blog, so I want to try to do what I said this blog is for and express incomplete thoughts/progress updates. So I’m going to try to come here every week to let you all know what I’m up to. So…

I'm sitting in the car at a red light. It's 6:10am, just on time to get my sisters to school. The man with the hand wiper and the Pepsi bottle full of diluted dish detergent walks up the car expectantly. For once, I let him. He smiles wide, happy to have a customer that wasn't first a hostage this early in the morning.

So as part of my partly self-imposed stint of unemployment, I’ve had a bit more time to read, which is a great thing for me. I’ve always found reading to be relaxing and informative by nature. In particular I’ve been reading Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles and Ted Orland. It’s a book that wears its contents on its sleeve. It primarily concerns itself with the difficulties that artists face when trying to create their (our) work. It covers a range of these from the eternal feeling of being an imposter, the lie that we tell ourselves that “if I just do this then I’ll be an artist”, dealing with the desired to be accepted, perfectionism and a whole host of other, well, Perils™.