Of all the species that have ever lives on Earth, approximately 99.9% are now extinct. As Bill Bryson puts in in A Short History of Nearly Everything, all life that currently exists could be attributed to a rounding error.
You're right. I have never thought about something as trivial as earwax, and much of this was like brand new information for me. The images could have been less disgusting though...
This is such a great description of your process, and something we all go through. I think we start to polarize so intensely on the work, that we really do start to become blind to it. I turn my paintings upside down when I start a dissatisfied inner dialogue academic writing , and confuse my brain into thinking it's seeing something completely different. It works most of the time !
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You're right. I have never thought about something as trivial as earwax, and much of this was like brand new information for me. The images could have been less disgusting though...
This is such a great description of your process, and something we all go through. I think we start to polarize so intensely on the work, that we really do start to become blind to it. I turn my paintings upside down when I start a dissatisfied inner dialogue academic writing , and confuse my brain into thinking it's seeing something completely different. It works most of the time !
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