August 18th, 2010%
Certain thoughts, words, expressions, or moments may need to be written. You decide why or why not. Your relationship with your thoughts becomes your journal. It’s going to be dysfunctional. Get over it.
Only mean people judge themselves because they hate themselves. Seriously, get over it.
Old journals are useful tools for writers because they help us remember how to:
- Use language to express thoughts and feelings at different ages
- Understand how language is influenced by mood
- Notice patterns of comprehension within different phases of a relationship
I’ve gone back to my journals to get ideas on how to make characters and situations more artistically dysfunctional, not autobiographical.
August 16th, 2010%
This entry is pulled from my favorite journal from 1997-1998 which included photos and scraps of anything that would keep an idea until it found potential safety between two pages. I studied Art History and Creative Writing in undergrad which initiatied a viceral connection between image and language that sometimes makes my writing difficult to understand.
I attempt to capture meaning within the order of words.
By proclaiming it art, I subtract my identity from this work. Thus art is transformed from an idea into an inanimate stimulus.
Art invites the public to translate someone’s creativity by separating it into constants that they feel must designate art. For example, modern art is unacceptable to certain people who believe the artist should possess skills beyond their mastery. “I could paint this line” or “what does this have to do with art” are common utterances.
Abstraction requires a mastery of precision.
The first line had this quote from Thomas Merton’s A Message from the Horizon written in the margin: “When a message has no clothes on, how can it be spoken?”
