July 19ths
January 19ths 7/19/2020 Usually I’ll understand something completely in retrospect. And the more I talk or write about it the more it becomes clear to me what the thinking process was (I dictated this as a first draft). When I say ‘thinking process’ I’m talking about the thinking process that happened subliminally and was not analytical. Improvisation is a good example of this (in speaking or in playing music): You simply cannot analyze as you are improvising, or, ideally, you want to stop yourself from doing that. In music, when I’m improvising the only thing I have to make a concerted effort to do is to listen to what’s going on around what I’m doing and react accordingly. Therefore, the hands-on process of making art is a kind of improvisation in which you have to remind yourself to be more mindful of the things on the periphery that can change the course of the work, as one would think of things as they speak. 7/19/2021 As I’ve been working wit...
