Juniors have received their portfolios today. Perhaps not the moment of truth we all thought it would be.
Someone wise said to me, "You have to know the rules before you can break them."
This, I think, is the artist's mantra. More importantly, people need to know that we know the rules before they accept the breaking of them. Maybe we have to fix some things up, re-do something else or maybe we are just fine. But let's keep it all in perspective.
It is hard for me to see rules, regulations, or (god forbid) assignments as having much merit or value. However, they are put it place for a reason (depending on what you make of them) and are tools to push us forward, or challenge us.
Truthfully, I have gotten some of my most exciting ideas from weeding through the "guidelines". Test the boundaries, you have to do this to move forward. Let go, lay it out there, and when it fails, or doesn't work how you want it to, try another angle.
This is how we learn.
Try for the sake of trying.
xoxo,
Charlie
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