I think it’s better to make something that is bad than nothing. It’s better just to do it. After all the joy really is in making something. Learning, then making something else.
One of my more eloquent, anonymous critics said of my work- ‘that art and artist is trash’. He may very well be correct. Most definitely there are much better painters out there. There is definitely better woodworkers. I don’t know what I’m doing a lot of the time, I mostly figure it out. But I would like to retort to the aforementioned critic- ‘The fuck have you done?’
In that spirit of getting things done today I hard mounted some frames to couple of paintings I finished last week.
Would the works look nicer with professionally made frames? Maybe. But then again maybe not. I personally think there’s a charm in making something from start to finish. People say a lot of things, things like- ‘it needs to be done this way or that’. People talk a lot. I think it’s better just to do.
A lot of my favourite art is made by people who don’t know what they are doing, but they make it anyway. Without needing permission. Without caring what anyone thinks. Because they are compelled to make things. To me, that trait will serve an artist, or creative more than any level of technical skill.