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Order from Chaos

i have found doing art to be one of the few areas of my life i have
any control of, and, ironically, find the work most successful when i
am not trying to control it.

Michaelangelo's Slave Sculptures are what it looks like when an artist
is wrested mid-creation, literally and figuratively. In this case it
was to go work on the Sistine Chapel (i think). Michaelangelo wrote
about seeing his figure in the stone, and his divine quest was to liberate
it. Here preserved is the Slaves' struggle for freedom from the marble
in which they are entombed, and the artist's mission is to chisel that
stone, make that mark, hit that next note, pen that word.

Ideally, the piece i am working on makes all of the decisions, i just have to
be undistracted enough to listen

But we are in very distracting times...

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BELOW: Michaelangelo's Slaves (unfinished)