pasithea

Perhaps the best thing about moving is the opportunity to re-examine your rat's nest of treasures and get rid of a bunch of it. Certainly that's the perk for me. I realize now that part of the reason I've been so slow to start is that Stacey tells me it's not worth getting rid of X Y and Z small things because I should spend time packing. But it's not true. a cubic foot of stuff here, a cubic foot there, it really adds up. So tonight I'm on the cull! Much junkness will be eliminated.

Stacey isn't the only person that tells me to keep junk. I have dozens of old sketchbooks dating back to 1990. All of my artist friends say 'You should keep them, you'll regret it in 10 years if you don't!' and yet I have more than 10 years of sketchbooks and I wouldn't regret having got rid of them.

I do recognize that not everythign I did in the past was crap. There's stuff that was eureka moments and stuff that has sentiment to me and even a few things that are good concepts, no matter how badly rendered they might be. So what I think I'll do is go through at least all the spiral bound books and razorblade out the few bits I think are important to me and put them in a binder and toss the rest. It's 20 or 30 lbs of dead weight and 3 cubic feet of space that I can clear up. Also, if I have bits I care about in a pre-culled format, I'm a lot more likely to actually look at it. There's no need to be so attached to physical things.

Tonight, I clean!