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I think that’s because sometimes, I think that I should perfect things before I
put them out there—so I do the counterintuitive thing, which is to make the
simplest, worst thing that I can do and put it out there. From there, there's
momentum and it builds up to better work. But then again, that does not look
well when you’re working with others.
I’m really not that fine-handed. I almost failed in my first year in Fine Arts,
because I'm not really good at drawing. So sometimes I question my current
position: Is the acceptance and validation [I receive] as an artist bogus?
Chaotic Festivies, Photographs
and cardboards formed into
fiesta banderitas; rope, c-prints,
carboard, masking tape; size
variable, 2017. Photography by
Abbey and Emen Batocabe.
You speak about the importance of momentum in art-making. Are you
speaking from a commercial standpoint? If not, where?
Medyo. As I mentioned one of the ways I try to win against myself is by
reading self-improvement books. Along the way I stumbled about startup
methodologies of working with feedback.
Another one of the books, which I really, really like, Mastery by Robert
Green, talks about having a conversation with reality, of creating prototypes
and observing how they work in the real world.
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