Flushing out a Blockage

This morning a friend popped by in his van & we removalled the sofa from the studio. Was a bit of a drain on the work ethic having it there. Very comfy it was and i love it but it was only put there cos there was nowhere else at the time. Now its in storage & it already obvious its been a really good move.

We did that first thing this morn & once i got back to the studio i started doing messy stuff that i couldn't do before in case i splashed the sofa i.e. cleaning out goopy buckets with turps & hosing the floor to get rid of the reek of turps cos yay the turps bottle fell over. Then i did some welding of an armature which i was slack in starting before cos of worrying about setting fire to the sofa. I also killed the torch flame problem, aced it. So its been a greatly effective flushing of a massive blockage in the studio. I used to go in to the studio, as if to work ... but It would suck me towards it i would sit down just for a moment & it was so comfy & then i'd make a cup of tea & read & then have lunch & then after all that tiring sitting about i'd have a nap. Then go home feeling mildly distressed & pathetic cos of having done jack sh*t. Its not what u pay rent on a studio for is it. You pay that rent to have a place to Suffer for your Art, nu?

The straw that broke the camels hump tho was the other day i was enjoying the comfy so much i did some sculpting while sitting on it & after a few hrs of that i'd buggered my neck. You cannae slouch while sculpturing - it just against nature.

Anyway i stood up all day today, worked hard & never needed to sit down... i been sucked toward that succubus of a couch every moment that it was there. I had felt like i was ill, as standing up was so hard, when it was just there, inviting. Now its way cool that standing up working hard all day is still in me :)

Yay!

Speakin of tho, been very pleased to have killed the torch flame. I got a hand from the family who when i said argh i can't do this torch flame, mum & sis explained to me how torches are made. The old ones were made by tying together a buttload of bullrushes, and then lighting em. So the torch flame is actually a LOAD of small flames that all join up to make 1 big one. By knowing that you can work out how to make a torch flame eh, or at least grok the nature of a torch flame, which make it easier. Well, that and studying the Statue of Liberty torch. Though hers was not pointy at all, probably cos it was so damn huge it would look pointy from a distance anyway.

So well since i done a flame and clouds now, i reckon the next one is water. I'm gonna make waves & water out of clay. Orright. Its kind of a confidence builder to make the Elements of nature.