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| Experiment in finding wabi sabi. I'm still learning how to do that. |
It was interesting to realize that I use these with my students all the time, but I wasn't allowing myself the same space to be imperfect, etc. It's time to fix that. I have printed them out and put them on my studio wall to remind me of them. Please feel free to use these yourselves.
- I have permission to make a mess.
- I have permission to work non-linearly.
- I have permission to be afraid.
- I have permission to be uncomfortable.
- I have permission to change my mind.
- I have permission to try something new.
- I have permission to make something that sucks.
- I have permission to ruin something.
- I have permission to do things over and over again.
- I have permission to be a bad artist.
- I have permission to take my time.
- I have permission to give myself time to think about things.
- I have permission to change my process.
- I have permission to garden instead.
- I have permission to stop and learn or study something.
- I have permission to share all of my work even my crappy work.
- I have permission to be a beginner.
- I have permission to go for a walk.
- I have permission to be excited about new things even if they're crap.
- I have permission to be an emerging artist until I am an experienced artist.
- I have permission to make a lot of crap as I explore.
- I have permission to explore all sorts of things.
- I have permission to do bad art [really bad art].
- I have permission to talk about my bad art.
- I have permission to teach what I know, even if that isn't very much right now.
- I have permission to be happy about this whole process, even if I make bad art and don't know very much.
- I have permission to be a confident explorer of all kinds of new creative things.