Tentative Focus

pronounced "BOH-kə"

So - to be reflexive and maybe cryptic - these entries will have a tendency toward those who are initiated to a certain level of their respective practices and have reached a certain degree of comfort in their own interiority and executable methodologies. 

There will be entries more suited for those who have just started; it’s just that there are sizable piles of documentation and readings on the instructions to draw circles and strokes - which practiced, even ad nauseam - yields very little in my opinion.

In defense of such practice, they do entice a beginner to start the themes to be more keen on the mental processes in relation to their more fine motor skills as they develop in the repetition. But practice in this case does not make perfect.

Instead, the prescriptive-ness of tool-to-paper is a poor framing of acknowledging what lines are, what value is, and the compounding of what those things “be”. Sure it negates the barriers of “if’s” and “what-abouts’” and initiates the “just-do” aspect on the “accomplishable”. 

Pretentious “to a T”, but this very real distinction is essential.

Focus, maybe is what I’m trying to describe? Yes, technique and skill are necessary for execution. One builds a habit, sure, but it’s just that Gladwellian-type stances tend to subvert the base acknowledgement of what these things “do” on a blank piece of canvas, analog or otherwise -

Embedded in - and by - creativity, this interpersonal communion and its very dynamic, is at the center-most of art creation. I firmly believe in the abilities of anyone, nuanced or not, to be able to execute their unique, inner being to be communicated externally, into our physical spaces.

Sure, a 1 to 1 is Herculean, but the decision to commit, even if for the first time, is the catalyst to expression. Reconciling the faults come after the fact, and are situated between the progression of art making itself and tacit adjustments made from constructive, feedback.