I’ve been struggling with the feeling that everything I make has to have some meaning. Not necessarily that it has to communicate something to anyone else, but for it to have meaning and purpose for me, it needs to start from an idea. In my drawing abstraction class, I am finding this isn’t necessarily so, and that is refreshing. I find that I can start on something, with absolutely nothing in mind, and by the time I am halfway through, it has revealed some secret or memory, or thrill to me that has been tucked away in the far reaches of my mind.
So there it is, I don’t need to have an idea, one will come when it needs to. Next step, how to make something with no meaning in mind, and in the end, even if there is no meaning, or idea, or concept behind it, allow myself to still like it.