0306 dashi hanbun

0306 dashi hanbun

during this project I often ask myself, 

1. why should anyone like this? there is often nothing to grab or excite or fascinate or demand anyone's attention. 
2. am I wasting people's time? 
3. should I be?

for me, these answers are obvious:

1. it doesn't require liking to be worth doing
2. they're pretty short; mercifully for some. but maybe some wish they were longer, hoping for something more meaningful to materialize and it never comes. but this is ok. no one is forced to follow, watch, listen.
3. doesn't matter. the hours (between 2 and 4 hours, on average, some days 6 or more) I spend making them is never wasted time for me.

they don't always have a point, or meaning, or relevance to anything. sometimes they just are crafted things, ugly small creations. 

today's piece, as with many others, take and develop material drawn from the mundane world around me. no spectacular things, no profound epiphanies, no mind-blowing. if I start doubting if the mundane is suitable subject matter, then I have to wonder if all we crave from art is to have our little minds blown, where does that leave our ability to see the beauty in mundanity? perhaps what i'm doing (unconsciously until I start navelgazing like this) is suggesting that the non-extreme expanses of life between the amazing, earth-shattering, crazy shit that happens, is not to be ignored. there is beauty everywhere, one need only seek it.

i wonder if the algorithm-driven, for-profit internet as it is today has done something worse to us than shorten our attention spans.. maybe it's made us say meh to a lot of things that before we might have paused and thought about, stared a little longer at, let it soak into our beings, and allowed ourselves to enjoy it despite its ordinariness, and let it simply improve our day a little bit.

i hope you don't mind if i use this blog as a box for catching things i think about while making these daily things.