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Paul Prudence
@paul-prudence
After returning yesterday to some near misses from my Axiom series for #monochrome-monday, I remember that all projects have unfinished business. https://rodeo.club/post/0xe51B3e7CB63615F74323DDDC9F423c3f3AB83eB3/237
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Marius Watz
@mariuswatz
God, ain't that the truth. 😅 60% the time I want to bring some of my old works back, the rest of the time I think it's unhealthy to obsess about archives and I should focus on new work. These pieces of yours feel like classics to me, mind you. Would have fit perfectly in the big op art show last year. 😍
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Paul Prudence
@paul-prudence
I think your 60% is a good value here – maybe I should have said that 60% of projects have unfinished business. I usually reconnect with the old works as a starting point for new trajectories. Projects often reach a burnout stage where the need for more iterations and new variations starts to extract fun from the project, or they have just run their course for the time being or met their deadline. Usually after a few hours of tinkering you get to know if picking up an old project was a good or bad idea. But I think it's often worth investigating because sometimes doing something really inappropriate to these finished works leads to something fresh. Appreciate the comment about this series and that was a nice show! 🙏
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Marius Watz
@mariuswatz
Agree with that description, definitely. It's weird to be at a point in life where I think more about old projects than new ones, partly because of history but also limited time to do new work. I also don't have a calendar of events lined up that require new work, so my current creative context is a lot more retro/introspective. I do feel the pull of some things left unfinished, though. Especially if a piece isn't well-documented and risks simply fading out of memory.
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Paul Prudence
@paul-prudence
Anyone that knows your work well would agree with me that you have a very tidy and compelling back catalogue. I love seeing your old work rise to the surface. I still think you were one of the few that were ahead of the game. But true, deadlines are so very useful, they kill us but they do provoke us to produce our best work. Having said that there is also joy in an ever unfolding timeline, and as a friend once said to me "everything, even 'finished' is just a draft".
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Marius Watz
@mariuswatz
Thank you for the kind words, Paul, much appreciated. I could say the same about your work, I've been very happy to see you put out new pieces these last few years. New shit, with that unmistakable Prudence flavor! ps. Agree about "finished" being an illusion. 🫡 🖤
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