I spent a lot of time today journaling, and looking through my sketchbooks, and thinking about my creative process, and then I had a real struggle getting to painting.
I listened to what was going on internally, and it was all very negative about how I had wasted my time, and failed to be creative today.
This is the kind of rubbish my inner critic loves to feed me. The reality is that journaling, flipping through your own sketchbooks, and taking time to think about your creativity is as much creative practise as painting a finished masterpiece.
I still had a struggle getting to painting, but, as usual, once I started painting, and got into the looking and seeing, instead of the I’m the worst artist on the planet drama, I started enjoying myself.
Sometimes that’s all that this daily commitment to art is, a daily commitment to meeting my inner critic where she is, and painting anyway. It doesn’t matter whether the piece is amazing, or mediocre, the real magic is in winning the showdown.
Speaking of showdowns, have you seen the current Banksy happenings?
He installed his latest work on the Royal Courts of Justice, depicting a judge hammering a protester holding a cardboard sign. This references the scenario created by Yvette Cooper, who was Home Secretary until a few days ago, who proscribed a Palestine protest group at terrorists. The ensuing farce has seen hundreds of people, mostly disabled and pensioners, being manhandled by police, and arrested, all for standing in a public place holding a sign.
It’s utterly ludicrous.
The Banksy work was almost immediately hidden with a metal hoarding, and a police presence, to stop people looking at it.
I’m tempted to type this twice.
Today the authorities attempted to scrub the Banksy off the wall, and there is now a ghost print of the work, which actually makes the work even more potent.
The media, a group of people who have almost entirely flushed their self-worth into the sewers in recent years, are now threatening to Unmask Banksy, because he dared to use art to comment on the assault on our democracy currently underway.
The establishment is more upset about an artist making a painting than they are about the slaughter and intentional starving of civilians.
I’m tempted to type that twice, too.
Til the morn,
Suzanne
571/600
Thrummie Bizzum 
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