“Aren’t you nervous showing your works in progress, showing your process? Most artists don’t do that,” Mattan said. The way he said it implied it was a weak and stupid thing to do. Maybe he was correct.

The first thing I did was reframe the ‘integrity’ of artists protecting their process from view as what it is:

“The fear artists have of showing their process- the consequences they’re afraid will happen if they show their drafts, their works in progress- I do have those negative consequences. I experience them regularly.

It devalues your work to people,” etc etc. Etc.

“But I’m not playing the short game here. I’m playing a bigger game.

My ‘works-in-progress’ will just have to compete with other people’s finished works.

I have nothing to hide.

And my unfinished works- my ‘in-the-meantime sketches’ — they will just have to be as good as others’ ‘finished’ paintings.

Better.

(And they are already. Because most of what you see is sketches. Elevating that process.)

This isn’t about how you sell a painting.

This is about how you become a picasso, a …. A….. ________. ……The Alexander the Great of Art.

I think.

Today, with Marke- every means is an end unto itself. Every step of the process bears a finished product. AND leads towards something greater, but if that never happens, it was worth it. There is zero potential loss. Every ACTION REAPS RESULT.

As burning dan said, ‘we practice win-win kung-fu’.

Perfect the process. Perfect the process.

Catch a fish and you eat for a day.

Teach yourself how to invent a fishing rod, and you’re on your way to being… to becoming… to… you… I….

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ACTION

If you’re reading this (you know who you are, though we haven’t discussed it) be brave be brave be brave. ACTION

ACTION

ACTION

WIN !