blog 5

I think Bruce Mau’s sixth tenant, capture accidents would be the most helpful to me. I have never had any formal art training but I do craft. Often I will find a mistake in my knitting or crocheting that no one would know unless they inspected it and new the pattern. Yet I still can not leave it there, I will rip out row after row to remove the mistake. I think it would be interesting to see how a project turned out if I didn’t try to stick so closely to the pattern. Even if I decide to make up a project I will take parts from other patterns and agonize about the small parts I make up and if they fit the pattern I am basing it off of. I also feel this may be a reason I am not involved in more classical forms of art. If I try and paint something I will obsess over the small line I feel I have crossed instead of just embracing it and moving on. I feel that it is ruined before it is even half done. I think is why I prefer my crafts, because they are not as permanent as other forms of art. Yarn or thread can be pulled out, scrapbook pictures can be laid out first and pulled up and repositioned. I think I need to take some risk and let the mistakes fall where they may!