#creative vulnerability

Some days are great art days. Some days are most definitely NOT. Today is the latter. But hey. I'll share this disproportionate trash panda with you anyway.

Like so many creative people, I've got so many ideas and not enough energy and time to see them through.

I like to tell myself that I'm close enough on skill but not speed. I also have a perfectionism streak that makes me hesitant to share anything in-progress. Tying them together is the struggle of getting over the hurdle of beginning (and beginning again when things don't go to plan at first).

It's about chasing a mythical "good enough" that doesn't really exist outside of my head. It's about an anxiety about being perceived, and on the flip side not being perceived/shouting into a lonely void.

All that to say: I think I'm going to start blogging a public knitting diary, a note and/or a picture of what I've worked on project-wise in a day (or a related ramble), as a proof of concept that it's okay to share the slow and vulnerable parts of the process too (even if the only audience is my future self).