Tomorrow 365 (updated)
Monday, October 13th, 2008
Shot in remote mode using my pc and the 35mm f/1.4.
I draw. I draw a lot. And as I always like to remind myself before I grab my pen, my sketches need not be good, wholesome, meaningful, or artful. They just need to be me.
Some suck. Some are good. But all are me.
UPDATE: Had a few queries in my box about the written portion since it was faded and hard to make out.
“I own tomorrow. I don’t own tomorrow.”
I don’t spend much time crafting much of anything anymore. With sketches it’s just kind of there. It’s a thought or a feeling or an experience that I just kind of play with. One day I was reflecting on how much of life I own, how much I control. And the options and decisions are there for me to take it by the throat and kill it, put my arms around it and love it, or be complacent and unresponsive. And then there’s the other side to life. The tomorrow I don’t own, the tomorrow I can’t control even if the desire was there. Sickness. Love. Death.
I once explained that life was circle A and circle B. In circle A was everything you can control and in circle B was everything you couldn’t. And what’s always been important to me is to dominate and be as successful as I can with everything in circle A, but more importantly to love the process and idea of a circle B with the same enthusiasm. To love the process of just letting go.
