Yes, and perhaps this is also why confidence can be so context-specific. We may feel completely capable in one part of our work and strangely uncertain in another.
“We make something to discover something, and what we discover changes what we make next” captures the recursive nature of creative work beautifully. Perhaps artistic confidence is not confidence that the original idea will succeed. It is confidence that we can stay with the work as it changes, let failure redirect the work, discover how to evolve form.
I think this takes the idea one step further. Perhaps artistic confidence also requires a certain looseness towards our own intentions. The more tightly we define success in advance, the less room there is for the work to tell us something we did not already know. Thank you for this thoughtful addition.
So true that genuine confidence comes from stepping into unpredictable outcomes and learning you can handle them anyway.
Yes, and perhaps this is also why confidence can be so context-specific. We may feel completely capable in one part of our work and strangely uncertain in another.
“We make something to discover something, and what we discover changes what we make next” captures the recursive nature of creative work beautifully. Perhaps artistic confidence is not confidence that the original idea will succeed. It is confidence that we can stay with the work as it changes, let failure redirect the work, discover how to evolve form.
I think this takes the idea one step further. Perhaps artistic confidence also requires a certain looseness towards our own intentions. The more tightly we define success in advance, the less room there is for the work to tell us something we did not already know. Thank you for this thoughtful addition.
Love your work! It's extraordinary!