Last weekend me and my colleagues at Grafisch Collectief Thoets had our open studio
Sunday. It was fun but compared to the exhibition weekend I organized last April it was
soooo quietâŚÂ At the end of the day I started doubting myself.
Was my work not good enough? Maybe the way it was displayed on the wall wasnât working?
Or maybe the art didnât work well togetherâŚ
Also I find it very challenging to divide time between all of my different guests: friends,
family, old customers, potential new customers⌠Maybe I did it all wrong!
Maybe I did some of these things wrong, maybe, but then I thought I just had this big
show in April, people had just seen me (and my art). Also we started promoting the event quite
late, only 2 weeks ahead of time. Next to our event there was a lot happening that weekend,
a big comic festival in Haarlem, the start of Terschellings theatre festival Oerol and
probably much moreâŚ
Today there was a new episode of a podcast that I like, the Creative Pep Talk by Andy Miller
and the theme of the show fitted perfectly: Breaking Through (creative) Anxiety.
Or as Miller puts it: âCreating from a place of anxiety is like trying to plant a garden on concrete.â
