Kristen took a beautiful walk to think about process and making. I, on the other hand, ate stuffing and pumpkin pie. I think Kristen and I are a good mixture of thoughtful and thoughtless in the blogging/creating process.

I am making constant mistakes in time management. I had 5 days off! 5! To think about this. About any of this. I spent my time sleeping, looking at glass with a new friend, eating with old friends, eating with family, and cooking. I write myself constant to-do lists that get lost and are unnoticed. I am always behind with homework and projects but I always have time for people. Basically, that is what it comes down to...I will make time for friends/family above all else almost every single time. I am always hopeful that deadlines will understand my flaws with this. It just seems so much more important. I think this blog is important though, this thinking about process and mistakes...which is why my school homework goes undone right now. (is this getting too personal and not enough about process?)

In her post kristen says "maybe this shows some marxist tendencies in wanting to see the "hand" of the person who made something (and that hand is shown, often, in mistakes: a stitch that's not straight, a thumbprint on a screenprint, a thumb in the way of a perfect photograph). it's just so human and i'd like to think art shows us how to value our human-ness." and I think this is something that we both find important. I feel like so many things are trending towards digital, glossy, free of any presence of human touch and there is nothing wrong with this (I'm blogging so take that for what it's worth) but personally I tend to be more fascinated by the person creating then the end result. I like seeing their signature in the lower right hand corner of a painting and thinking about what they were thinking about when the work was created. What were they listening to? Did they check the mail that day? Did they receive a phone call from a friend? Were they watching the news and worrying about paying their bills? I'm fascinated by personal daily routines. I'm interested in things made in ordinary circumstances.

This is why I love looking at sketchbooks and doodles in the margins of notebooks. I like seeing unfocused creativity...where there is no pressure to create 'something' or for something to be something.

I think this post is plenty unfocused. I am generally unfocused.

I'll end it with this. My 'project' for the week. Done in 10 minutes while talking to my brother about his brief trip to Brooklyn. Trying again to mix in human interaction with things that need to be done. He closed it, he knocked it out of my hands, there is ink on my pants.