{"id":3581,"date":"2009-10-16T12:46:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T19:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannarisse.com\/blog\/?p=3581"},"modified":"2009-10-16T12:46:07","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T19:46:07","slug":"looking-out-looking-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/looking-out-looking-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Out, Looking In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it seems I can&#8217;t get enough of the outside world. I want to read and see and hear. Lectures, shows, books, websites, I envelope myself in all things visual. Other times, I am stuck inside my own head. I make lists of ideas, I doodle, I sing. I can&#8217;t imagine seeing another show, the outside world holds no interest for me. I want to spend all my time pouring my thoughts onto paper. This is when the sketchbooks come out. I don&#8217;t keep a daily sketchbook, my scribble are erratic and I have many sketchbooks scattered around the house. I picked one up today to scratch out a list. I turned through the pages and found this lovely little sketch inside:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/4017682814\/\" title=\"pleasant surprise in the sketchbook by Alanna Risse, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2779\/4017682814_c91f010df5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"pleasant surprise in the sketchbook\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I quite like it. It&#8217;s not very old, I probably did it one night in the basement a couple months ago as Tom wrote music. All these little drawings really do add up to something. If I was to take inventory of every little chicken scratch of grand execution, I think I&#8217;d find I&#8217;m constantly making and thinking. Strange that. Nice that.<\/p>\n<p>I kept feeling conflicted about not wanting to go out and see other people&#8217;s work. But I get better at recognizing these waves of creativity and I should catch them when I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it seems I can&#8217;t get enough of the outside world. I want to read and see and hear. Lectures, shows, books, websites, I envelope myself in all things visual. Other times, I am stuck inside my own head. I make lists of ideas, I doodle, I sing. I can&#8217;t imagine seeing another show, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3582,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions\/3582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}