SO can you give me an example of different approaches to doing the artistic production process?
If people do not start with a concrete idea then you must surely have some sort of production process, or a rule of thumb thought process at least?
I mean i definately dont believe i for one could ever do something good by sort of researching and then intuitivle interpreting by some process of osmosis/sublimation.
I couldnt really say for others and again I think everyone is probably really different and it's quite an individual thing. That's why art education is partly bogus. For myself, it's incredibly neurotic and difficult and I think tied somewhat to other things like my Asian work ethic and childhood catholic guilt as well as my arts degree essay writing training, but basically it's based on the principle of complete exhaustion, which is to completely obsess over the parameters of the project to find something interesting and find that thread to pull which can unravel the entire thing, lot's and lot's of research and spending weeks or months constantly thinking over every possible permutation of an idea until I start to see a way through and blindly following that glimmer. There's always a point of complete exhaustion though, where you think you're completely stupid and hopeless and don't have any good ideas and can't come up with something, but if you keep forging past this point you usually get to a point where something good'll turn up. It's not really a viable model at all, and it's really wrenching and difficult. I am sure most artists work in a lot more systematized and rational way, I'd be interested to find out. Let me think of other artists working models I've read about and I'll get back to you.
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