I've been working busily away over the last couple of weeks and I've got a number of things on the go.  I promised myself to make a few gallery submissions this year and here we are almost halfway through August and I haven’t done so yet.  I'm aiming to start sending some packages out in October.

I've also started to think out written proposals for shows and that’s where I've run into some problems.  The initial proposal was for a show of fifteen to twenty pieces all framed and hung.  It's pretty straight forward, no problem right?  I started to work out the cost of framing which will be fairly expensive.  It's not really a big deal.  If I got a show somewhere I'd certainly suck up the cost of framing.  My problem was I started thinking about ways to get around framing the work. 

As I thought about the problem in my head the idea of the work slowly shifted in my head from images that hung on a wall  to objects that occupied space.  I thought of a few different variations of the work I could try out and got excited with this new direction I could take my work.  It feels like I went through a few years of work in my head and I want to run out a start making it.  Part of me wants to abandon what I'm doing right now and start this new work, but I can't.

This is a problem I've always had.  I remember when I was in school I would do stuff like this all the time.  By the end of it I had a body of work that seem to have very little continuity to anyone but me.  Progression in art is a good thing.  Watching and artist work develop over time is one of the most interesting things about art to me, maybe more so than the art itself. It's like long learning long division in grade school.   The teacher wants to see your work.  Without the documentation of the progression the work has less meaning.  I've gotten better with this.  Trying to work as much as possible helps keep up with the day dreaming.  In  the end  though  I have to remind myself that  my work  will have more meaning if I do all the steps.