Tonight’s the night The Rolling Stones 2024 Tour sponsored by AARP begins in Houston. I’m just imagining the parking lot.
I also imagined what William Shakespeare’s first day of first grade in 1571 might have been like. Brutal for his classmates. That’s all I know for sure.
Then, I imagined his third grade class.
And, here is the TED talk that started me going this week on imagining the challenges of teaching and sitting next to William Shakepeare. Ken Robinson. 2006. My most favorite ever in the universe TED talk.
This week I am working on my Applause Machine with sounds and short sayings for perfectionists based on my decidedly non-perfectionist self. There seems to be a lot of attention on artists feeling they are a fraud, struggling with thinking their art work is not good enough or feeling they have not yet achieved a level of mastery their standards require.
So, since I do not suffer in this way, I’m going to share the sounds that allow me to look at my drawings and press “post” anyway.
But. I couldn’t post it this week because I just watched “Anselm” the movie by Wim Wenders about Anselm Kiefer. His work has always knocked any lightness of my being directly the hell out of me on to a concrete floor and force me to fully appreciate my twitdom. So, I’ll have to wait a bit.
In a YOUTUBE video of a discussion with Sarah Sze (the wonderful Sarah Sze) he said he had ALWAYS wanted to paint THE masterpiece of all masterpieces but so far (and he’s my age, 79) it had eluded him.
So, I don’t think my # 1 saying in my Applause Machine, “Not great but good enough” will help him at all.