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It is comforting to read of other artists’ struggles when I do feel like the walls are closing in:
“The telephone bill unpaid. The net of economic difficulties closing in on me. Everyone around me irresponsible, unconscious of the shipwreck. I did thirty pages of erotica.”
— Anaïs Nin, Diary 1939 – 1944, volume 3
I may have a studio space in Saint-Henry… But can I muster up the $100.00?
Started a Masters program in the French department at Concordia University: Littératures francophones et résonances médiatiques. Though I am interested in the literature field, I am also motivated by a desire to improve my French speaking and writing skills and meet more francophones. Perhaps this is a way to develop the Tongue Rug project? A way to research interfaces and language?
… I am frustrated with my Tongue Rug project right now. For the last two weeks I have been working in Photoshop, stitching together the panoramas. Twice now, I worked for a couple of hours on a document, only to have it fail. (I need the ends to match so that I can make a perfect circle.) It is a frustratingly long process, but when it works, what a feeling! I know I just have to stick with it and I will get over these hurdles…
Just as I said, I went back to the computer and kept at it. It was worth ef the effort. I finished the Lac Panache vista. It brought back fond memories, not only of when I took it, but when I was younger and I would hike up with my cousins.
… Today I followed through with my plan. I would have to work harder and on my own. I bought a scanner to work with my laptop. I started scanning the lake photos from last summer. It was the push I needed. I have been wanting to scan these for months. They were sitting on my desk at work. At the end of a shift, I had no energy to stay and work on my project into the late hours. I hope this sets the tone for a working routine.
