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Don’t get in your own way.
Monday 27th January 2025
These words by the Ghanian artist Okuntakinte really resonate with me.
It’s easy to put up barriers to artmaking. It’s difficult to get yourself into that place of freedom of expression that art requires of us.
Last week, after watching some of William Kentridge’s Self Portrait as a Coffee Pot I was inspired to make something.
I love paper. I built my newsletter around the idea of paper.
I got inspired by the way that Kentridge’s studio is littered with paper from old books which he covers in art, drawings, sketches, quotes.
I grabbed some scraps of newspaper that I had lying around, pulled out my chunky posca marker and got to work scribbling.
It was really freeing to get into that place where I could stop overthinking the ‘what’ and the ‘why’ of artmaking and just make. Create. Express.
Create create create. Whatever it is. And don’t get in your own way.