How the heckarini are ya!?
Good I hope.
This typeface is bad, doncha think?
You know I'm going through life minding my own business trying to think up stuff to do some art with, and for the most part doing okay with that. At least I think I am. I really do think that the art I come up is either original or I've just forgotten that I've seen something similar (I worry.)
But then I see something published that is a lot the same as something I've done, and it's a little unsettling.
I think maybe I'm a little better at dealing with it than before but not much.
Just the other day this guy I know Owen, sends me a pic of guy who has done crowds, and it showing them at the SAM sculpture park.
I freak out! Well, no, but it does make me think that:
1) this artist (Mcfetridge) has realized something I've been unable to realize. That is, he has had somebody ask to put up this artwork that looks similar to mine in a public place. I may have my own similar artwork but people haven't asked to put it in public place and so I'm one step behind.
2) or a bunch of steps behind.
3) you can see where I'm headed with this.
4) I suck.
5)McFetridge and I may have similar ideas but McFetridge has done the idea better than I have.
6) I hate McFetridge.
7) Actually, one reason I didn't freak out so much with this is I didn't really like parts of McFetridges' approach.
8) He is good getting different hair styles, and putting on glasses on some people, also good with the spacing of a crowd, all things I don't think I do so good. I have to sort of think to myself that because of the good things I'm doing with crowds, I can't be bothered with everything, every detail of a person in the crowd in order to think that maybe I should be doing more as far as the items listed above (hair styles, etc.)
9) But his crowds are flat, and colorless, the whole idea of my crowds is a little different, they are more alive I think while his crowd isn't. We have different approaches.
10) I get the feeling though that once something is public like in the case of McFetridge's crowds that anything else after it will seem derivative. That possibly even people will think that I copied McFetridge.
11) Actually the first thing I thought when I saw his crowd was that he had copied me.
12) I think that's significant somehow, shows an attitude by me that might go a long ways to explaining me.
13) But maybe not, I wouldn't bank on it.
So there you go, 13 reasons (13 good reasons) to freak out.
