Comments on: The problem with thinking http://kirstyhall.co.uk/2008/11/22/the-problem-with-thinking/ Artist & Purveyor Of Mad Obsessive Projects Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:57:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Felicity http://kirstyhall.co.uk/2008/11/22/the-problem-with-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-5692 Felicity Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:33:43 +0000 http://kirstyhall.co.uk/?p=735#comment-5692 Kirsty, thanks for articulating so beautifully exactly how I feel! It gives me hope when I read other artists expressing similar struggles! It gives you a little extra strength to make those little moves forward knowing that you are not the only one rattling around with these issues and it's ok to experience these things! It's not a sign that I don't have what it takes to enjoy the artful experience! Hope you are doing well & thank you again for sharing in both words and images. Kirsty, thanks for articulating so beautifully exactly how I feel! It gives me hope when I read other artists expressing similar struggles! It gives you a little extra strength to make those little moves forward knowing that you are not the only one rattling around with these issues and it’s ok to experience these things! It’s not a sign that I don’t have what it takes to enjoy the artful experience! Hope you are doing well & thank you again for sharing in both words and images.

]]> By: Felicity http://kirstyhall.co.uk/2008/11/22/the-problem-with-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-7191 Felicity Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:33:00 +0000 http://kirstyhall.co.uk/?p=735#comment-7191 Kirsty, thanks for articulating so beautifully exactly how I feel! It gives me hope when I read other artists expressing similar struggles! It gives you a little extra strength to make those little moves forward knowing that you are not the only one rattling around with these issues and it's ok to experience these things! It's not a sign that I don't have what it takes to enjoy the artful experience! Hope you are doing well & thank you again for sharing in both words and images. Kirsty, thanks for articulating so beautifully exactly how I feel! It gives me hope when I read other artists expressing similar struggles! It gives you a little extra strength to make those little moves forward knowing that you are not the only one rattling around with these issues and it’s ok to experience these things! It’s not a sign that I don’t have what it takes to enjoy the artful experience! Hope you are doing well & thank you again for sharing in both words and images.

]]> By: Little Drawings « Kirsty Hall http://kirstyhall.co.uk/2008/11/22/the-problem-with-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-5680 Little Drawings « Kirsty Hall Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:31:05 +0000 http://kirstyhall.co.uk/?p=735#comment-5680 [...] asked to see some of the little drawings that I talked about in my last post. Here are a few of my [...] [...] asked to see some of the little drawings that I talked about in my last post. Here are a few of my [...]

]]> By: Chris http://kirstyhall.co.uk/2008/11/22/the-problem-with-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-5679 Chris Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:44:27 +0000 http://kirstyhall.co.uk/?p=735#comment-5679 Kirsty, I hear ya. I am very sorry that things have slowed you down and impeded you. It's so strange that often the strongest roadblock we have is often our own critic. I've had to face that as a writer and an artist. Recognizing it helps, but doesn't solve it. It's a behavioral thing and therefore often habitual. If we can just get through the really uncomfortable feeling of freedom to express ourself (the flight from freedom syndrome!), it can sometimes break a major stumbling block cycle. It's easier said than done. I wish you an ease to this struggle. It's real! Kirsty, I hear ya. I am very sorry that things have slowed you down and impeded you. It’s so strange that often the strongest roadblock we have is often our own critic. I’ve had to face that as a writer and an artist. Recognizing it helps, but doesn’t solve it. It’s a behavioral thing and therefore often habitual. If we can just get through the really uncomfortable feeling of freedom to express ourself (the flight from freedom syndrome!), it can sometimes break a major stumbling block cycle. It’s easier said than done.

I wish you an ease to this struggle. It’s real!

]]> By: Chris http://kirstyhall.co.uk/2008/11/22/the-problem-with-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-7190 Chris Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:44:00 +0000 http://kirstyhall.co.uk/?p=735#comment-7190 Kirsty, I hear ya. I am very sorry that things have slowed you down and impeded you. It's so strange that often the strongest roadblock we have is often our own critic. I've had to face that as a writer and an artist. Recognizing it helps, but doesn't solve it. It's a behavioral thing and therefore often habitual. If we can just get through the really uncomfortable feeling of freedom to express ourself (the flight from freedom syndrome!), it can sometimes break a major stumbling block cycle. It's easier said than done. I wish you an ease to this struggle. It's real! Kirsty, I hear ya. I am very sorry that things have slowed you down and impeded you. It’s so strange that often the strongest roadblock we have is often our own critic. I’ve had to face that as a writer and an artist. Recognizing it helps, but doesn’t solve it. It’s a behavioral thing and therefore often habitual. If we can just get through the really uncomfortable feeling of freedom to express ourself (the flight from freedom syndrome!), it can sometimes break a major stumbling block cycle. It’s easier said than done.

I wish you an ease to this struggle. It’s real!

]]> By: missmilki http://kirstyhall.co.uk/2008/11/22/the-problem-with-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-5678 missmilki Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:09:57 +0000 http://kirstyhall.co.uk/?p=735#comment-5678 I didn't even got to art college and I have that problem of being overcritical of everything I make/draw/photograph/create to the point where I'm frozen with self doubt and I just can't do anything. I'm a total perfectionist which makes it hard to just let go and have fun being creative. I watched this video on TED Talks a few days ago about the links between creativity and play. He was talking from more of a design point of view than art but it applies to art too. I especially like the part where he says that as adults our desire to be original is a form of self editing of ideas before we even start. We just have to let go and have fun creating, editing comes at the end. Just like Merle was saying about photographers taking hundreds of images just to a have a few really good ones. The link to the video is - http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_brown_on_creativity_and_play.html Also hope you feel a bit better soon! :) I didn’t even got to art college and I have that problem of being overcritical of everything I make/draw/photograph/create to the point where I’m frozen with self doubt and I just can’t do anything. I’m a total perfectionist which makes it hard to just let go and have fun being creative. I watched this video on TED Talks a few days ago about the links between creativity and play. He was talking from more of a design point of view than art but it applies to art too. I especially like the part where he says that as adults our desire to be original is a form of self editing of ideas before we even start. We just have to let go and have fun creating, editing comes at the end. Just like Merle was saying about photographers taking hundreds of images just to a have a few really good ones.

The link to the video is – http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_brown_on_creativity_and_play.html

Also hope you feel a bit better soon! :)

]]> By: missmilki http://kirstyhall.co.uk/2008/11/22/the-problem-with-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-7189 missmilki Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:09:00 +0000 http://kirstyhall.co.uk/?p=735#comment-7189 I didn't even got to art college and I have that problem of being overcritical of everything I make/draw/photograph/create to the point where I'm frozen with self doubt and I just can't do anything. I'm a total perfectionist which makes it hard to just let go and have fun being creative. I watched this video on TED Talks a few days ago about the links between creativity and play. He was talking from more of a design point of view than art but it applies to art too. I especially like the part where he says that as adults our desire to be original is a form of self editing of ideas before we even start. We just have to let go and have fun creating, editing comes at the end. Just like Merle was saying about photographers taking hundreds of images just to a have a few really good ones. The link to the video is - http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_brown_on_creativity_and_play.html Also hope you feel a bit better soon! :) I didn’t even got to art college and I have that problem of being overcritical of everything I make/draw/photograph/create to the point where I’m frozen with self doubt and I just can’t do anything. I’m a total perfectionist which makes it hard to just let go and have fun being creative. I watched this video on TED Talks a few days ago about the links between creativity and play. He was talking from more of a design point of view than art but it applies to art too. I especially like the part where he says that as adults our desire to be original is a form of self editing of ideas before we even start. We just have to let go and have fun creating, editing comes at the end. Just like Merle was saying about photographers taking hundreds of images just to a have a few really good ones.

The link to the video is – http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_brown_on_creativity_and_play.html

Also hope you feel a bit better soon! :)

]]> By: deb http://kirstyhall.co.uk/2008/11/22/the-problem-with-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-5677 deb Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:49:57 +0000 http://kirstyhall.co.uk/?p=735#comment-5677 As a been there, done that mum, I can only say this too shall pass, sometimes when my kids were all little I was reduced to moving my furniture as a creative expression. Now I sometimes find I have the opposite problem, big empty blank spaces of time, and just when I had figured out how to work in little bursts! But the struggle to define my life through the art I make never goes away, nor do those annoying little monkey voices, now I find I mind them less... ans ignore them more often, which might mean my work is not so good, I don't know. I just wanted to empathise with your opening thought though, as you probably know I am busy trying to write an artist statement that doesn't sound like a dissertation and failing pretty miserably. GRRRR. Anyway, I hope you are kind to yourself and just let your energy fill back up slowly, and doodle away, sometimes the best thoughts come when we think we are just playing. Give your self permission to NOT be so serious, you have all the time you need, the universe only made you once, so it will wait for you to feel better.... As a been there, done that mum, I can only say this too shall pass, sometimes when my kids were all little I was reduced to moving my furniture as a creative expression. Now I sometimes find I have the opposite problem, big empty blank spaces of time, and just when I had figured out how to work in little bursts! But the struggle to define my life through the art I make never goes away, nor do those annoying little monkey voices, now I find I mind them less… ans ignore them more often, which might mean my work is not so good, I don’t know.

I just wanted to empathise with your opening thought though, as you probably know I am busy trying to write an artist statement that doesn’t sound like a dissertation and failing pretty miserably. GRRRR.

Anyway, I hope you are kind to yourself and just let your energy fill back up slowly, and doodle away, sometimes the best thoughts come when we think we are just playing. Give your self permission to NOT be so serious, you have all the time you need, the universe only made you once, so it will wait for you to feel better….

]]> By: deb http://kirstyhall.co.uk/2008/11/22/the-problem-with-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-7188 deb Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:49:00 +0000 http://kirstyhall.co.uk/?p=735#comment-7188 As a been there, done that mum, I can only say this too shall pass, sometimes when my kids were all little I was reduced to moving my furniture as a creative expression. Now I sometimes find I have the opposite problem, big empty blank spaces of time, and just when I had figured out how to work in little bursts! But the struggle to define my life through the art I make never goes away, nor do those annoying little monkey voices, now I find I mind them less... ans ignore them more often, which might mean my work is not so good, I don't know. I just wanted to empathise with your opening thought though, as you probably know I am busy trying to write an artist statement that doesn't sound like a dissertation and failing pretty miserably. GRRRR. Anyway, I hope you are kind to yourself and just let your energy fill back up slowly, and doodle away, sometimes the best thoughts come when we think we are just playing. Give your self permission to NOT be so serious, you have all the time you need, the universe only made you once, so it will wait for you to feel better.... As a been there, done that mum, I can only say this too shall pass, sometimes when my kids were all little I was reduced to moving my furniture as a creative expression. Now I sometimes find I have the opposite problem, big empty blank spaces of time, and just when I had figured out how to work in little bursts! But the struggle to define my life through the art I make never goes away, nor do those annoying little monkey voices, now I find I mind them less… ans ignore them more often, which might mean my work is not so good, I don’t know.

I just wanted to empathise with your opening thought though, as you probably know I am busy trying to write an artist statement that doesn’t sound like a dissertation and failing pretty miserably. GRRRR.

Anyway, I hope you are kind to yourself and just let your energy fill back up slowly, and doodle away, sometimes the best thoughts come when we think we are just playing. Give your self permission to NOT be so serious, you have all the time you need, the universe only made you once, so it will wait for you to feel better….

]]> By: Camilla http://kirstyhall.co.uk/2008/11/22/the-problem-with-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-5676 Camilla Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:12:07 +0000 http://kirstyhall.co.uk/?p=735#comment-5676 Hey Kirsty, I kinda guessed you were ill- i've been/am unwell too, which has meant that i've been a bit crap at arranging getting to see you anytime, but hopefully soon we can co-ordinate ourselves and drink tea and eat cake and talk art again soon. Hey Kirsty,
I kinda guessed you were ill- i’ve been/am unwell too, which has meant that i’ve been a bit crap at arranging getting to see you anytime, but hopefully soon we can co-ordinate ourselves and drink tea and eat cake and talk art again soon.

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