
98 - Bedazzled NASTY
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As I mentioned in my post yesterday I fell into a hole on a hard drive last night. This morning I'm feeling a little the worse for wear.
I sometimes get anxiety symptoms triggered by hyper-focusing and that happened, after an opportunity popped up on one of my social feeds: The Exeter Contemporary Open. The deadline is today at 23:59. I was already working to a deadline of 17 June for the Trinity Buoy Drawing Prize and the new deadline interrupted that work flow.
So I tried to do too much. On paper, it didn't seem that much but my brain locks on and becomes hyperactive. I really needed a nice restful weekend. After a nap yesterday around 6pm, I decided to resume work on the zig zag piece but I just couldn't draw properly and gave up after a couple of hours.
However, instead of doing something relaxing - like meditation or yoga - I dug out that old hard drive in a search for a old image. I found part (probably over 100 photos) of my street photography archive from 2011. Another story for another day but it was the worst thing I could have done. My mind immediately started 'working' on editing those images.
^ One of the fashion / street photography images I was looking at last night. It got photo bombed by carrier bag man, but I do love main man's NASTY glasses and graffiti outfit.
^ I made a series of photos outside PRIMARK near Marble Arch in London.
At 12:20pm today I am meeting Nicole Melpómene online for a choreography and screenshots session and I need to update my CV and artists statement (yeuch). It's taken at least a month to secure that slot in her busy diary so I can't reschedule it.
The sense of overwhelm from all the work I've created over the years and never shown can get a bit much.
Anyway, having done some Qigong this morning and the french window is open with the birds singing, I'm feeling not too bad. I aim to clear this lot by around 2.30pm and then kick back.