sans soucis et juste pour moi

For several months now I've been juggling different concepts for the third series of descendo prints and I may have just hit the nail on the head. I'm still at the beginning stages of conception, I wouldn't want to jinx myself at this point but I've figured out how to make a tangent between two different intentions/results. All this probably due to a «deadline-free» (stress-free) week. One that I've been longing for for a very long time now. I have to state that I don't excel primarily in any form of artistic expression whatsoever. This is what makes it all the more complicated -- though I do make a living with design+art direction in the music industry (because I know the industry like the back of my hand). This doesn't mean that I'm necessarily a design freak -- I'd go for a creative freak and leave it at that. This is how my mind works, I'm not at ease when I'm not being constructive. Every spare second goes into some side project or another -- ie: le soir for example... one of many. I can't compare with people who's lives revolve solely around one aspect of artistic the many endeavors... I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, far from it, by doing so they will acheive a hightened sense of their craft -- I probably never will. The second series I came up with last year, «Whistler Scars», sure as hell didn't reinvent the wheel -- nor were they nominated for shit -- nor did I submit them to any contest -- but they did sell (a bit, just enough to know that my art is hanging on walls around the globe), and they meant the world to me at that point of my life, every subtle corner of both pieces contains some "secret" or some "hint" about what turned D into W and so forth. It's what I've dubbed safe art. You'll have to sit down and read this phrase very carefully now, because, you don't read it often enough -- it's the kind of art that I enjoy. Nothing else should matter. It's not even a question of tastes -- we can all go back and compare the influences; Dave Johnson is the new Warhol (but Kirby came before him), The Beatles changed the world but they too had influences... that shouldn't matter -- the end result is my struggle, in this case it's : it's the kind of art that I enjoy. Nothing else should matter.