one week left before the show....

So... A week from today I will be putting up work for my Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis show.... Not as big of a deal as I thought it was going to be due to some technical and planning difficulties and guffaws but that's okay... It put things in perspective about who needs to see my work, if anyone, why they need to see my work and how that has to do with me as an artist and me as a person. I realized that I am not my work. My work is objects. Paintings are tangible... The painting process is me. I am the painter, not the paintings. And I must make the work, making is the important part. For some reason, I have to make it. I don't have to have anyone see it anymore. It's not about that. It's about working. It's about going straight back up into my studio the next night and starting a new painting. It's enlightenment.