Can’t loose hard fought momentum and settle back into non-production. Artistic inertia works both ways, body making art tends to stay making art, body not making art tends to stay not making art…BUT…this is only the case in a vacuum. Unless constant force is applied a body making art will succumb to friction and slowly come to rest again as a body not making art. THEN to get going again one has to fight both the inertia AND friction to get going again.

  • Go big. Really big. – NOBODY BUYS BIG ART!
  • Study an art discipline completely different from painting to get my brain working with new thought patterns. – DOES NETFLIX COUNT?
  • Read books about subjects unrelated to art – right now I’m reading books about the Grail Legend and Alchemy. – CHECK!
  • Stop reading Art Marketing books. – NEVER STARTED!
inertia - hard to stop suddenly without eating shit
Inertia can be nice once you’re going but at some point you might eat shit.

“Inertia. They say it’s the natural state of the natural world. Sort of like those brush hairs stuck in the dry paint. But artists have a solution to that. Don’t they?” – Sue Smith

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After a long exile in South Texas climbing out of a nihilistic funk, Otis Woodcock has found his way back to the open skies and quiet horizons of the American prairie. Having earned an MFA from Miami University, Ohio, he left his ancestral home in southern Indiana, spending the last three decades between Louisville, Kentucky, and San Antonio, Texas, developing his Iconoclasmatic Pop Art™ practice. On this journey, an anxious recovering Catholic and cancer survivor gradually evolved into the optimistic existentialist whose work is less interested in providing answers than in questioning certainty. Today, Woodcock lives and works where the seasonal rhythms and expansive landscapes of the Midwest serve as the backdrop for an ongoing exploration of belief systems, cultural inheritance, and the subtle poetry of ordinary things.

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