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| RTomens, 2021 |
It's hard to tell whether you're 'rich' in the brains department, or were 'shortchanged' at birth, isn't it? If I had 'the brains', perhaps I could tell. But as I said to LJ the other day, you don't say you're 'mad' if you really are. Catch-22.
I don't suppose you need to be brainy to make art. Being 'brainy' is akin to being an intellectual but not quite the same. Intellectuals enjoy theorising, formulating profound ideas and writing them down. Brainy people just know things. They invent complex machines. I don't know what I'm talking about...because...I'm not brainy enough.
My capacity to understand anything is being reduced by time. Luckily, I don't need to understand much to pursue my artistic endeavours. Whilst drawing, or whatever, I only think about what's under my nose, i.e., where the next line/image will go. This reflects my outlook on life, I confess. I'm incapable of planning a couple of days ahead. I blame Jack Kerouac for that, even though it was probably my attitude well before I read him. Kerouac justified my 'spontaneous' lifestyle. He glorified it!
Forty years later, I'm not exactly spontaneous. I'm too routine in my life. Besides, it's hard to be spontaneous in lockdown. On the plus side, I've worked art-making into my routine. I've developed a routine so as not to have to think about it, which is a bonus since thinking taxes whatever is left in my brains department.
TTFN!
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