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Lu Chekowsky's avatar

Wow. Thank you, Jami. This newsletter is truly my exact experience with my project at this moment. You sharing this has invigorated me and left me feeling less alone. I am very grateful. Maybe I'll mention this too, since it has some similarities to your post -- I read your post yesterday on a bench in a quiet alcove of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and was moved to tears because it is exactly what's been on my mind -- how will I tackle rethinking the thrust of a project I've been working on for years after it went out on submission and had no takers. I'd gone to the museum to look for "the oldest art I can find" so I could see things that had survived and were still standing and beautiful and here. I particularly wanted to see the greek sculptures that were missing arms and legs because I've felt like them this week. I thought that being around that kind of survival might make me feel less afraid about what I'm have to do next if I want to make something great. I don't live in the city anymore. I moved upstate, outside of the city three years ago, and I've been mostly in isolation for the last year with my small family. Reading your post in the energy of that space, one of my first times out in the "real world" (and my old home) in a year, surrounded by all the people wearing masks and taking in art because art is so critical; it felt like a sort of serendipity. I always gobble up your newsletter and appreciate your generosity, but, this one I'm going to tattoo this one under my eyelids. Thank you.

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Amanda G's avatar

This is so true. It’s hard not to become discouraged in this process. I don’t know if I’m getting to a better place.

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