Notes on The Process

There are two types of blocks. The first is a true void: you have nothing to express; your artistic endeavor is predicated on some artificial notion of activity without any impetus. All I can say is, if you find this to be your situation, that you are not ready to create. You must first go out and find your artistic purpose. Study from the perspective of a non-artist for now, practice being an attentive audience, and learn the techniques which you will be able to employ, once you have found a vision.

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An artist is an individual who uses one or more methods of stylized expression to create something which is meant to be pleasing, in some way, to the artist and some theoretical audience. A successful artist has conveyed that sense of pleasure to an audience, of whatever size and nature.

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You have your priorities straight. The process comes first. You have strategized a plan by which you will periodically be free to sink, undistracted, into the blissful timeless space of craft and invention. You are focused on your project, fixated on your subject, and racing toward your object with all due electricity.

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Aporia Rhapsodia:
It’s Not A Bug, It’s A Feature

This is a book of riddles.

What are riddles? Riddles are portals to the unknown. Riddles are spectacles of perspective, conceptual illusions, traps along the roads of routine reasoning. Riddles are big concepts conveying themselves in small spaces. Riddles are behind the green glass door. Life is littered with riddles. Our lives are how we answer them.

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