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I have two jobs on this planet. One brings in money to stay here, and thus I try to be responsible, reliable and good at what I do and so forth. The other job is making art. It is essentially underpaid, and mostly unpaid, and has a terrifying boss. I shirk a lot at this job, and will do almost anything to get the day off. Call in sick, call in because my kid is sick, call in because my kids bird is sick, and on and on. Any excuse seems to work, but the work piles up in my head regardless of my excuses for not 'going in' today. Mostly the art waits very patiently, gently stroking the interior of my skull to let me know it is there with its wishes to emerge into the world. But often it piles up, and the images start to become more insistent about the when's and where's of their birth.
Turning up for work is a surrender to the needs of these visual creatures. I bring them forth onto the paper before Terrifying Boss has a chance to point out any shortcomings. The results are at once familiar and unknown, like unexpectedly meeting a brother you had no idea you had. This paradox gives me a feeling that I am on the right track.
I refine these visual ideas and watch and wait. These unfamiliar brothers are still mysteries in need of resolve. I work with the absolute conviction that there is a solution that will reveal itself, if only I can work on it long enough and hard enough. I get fully absorbed in a sea of connections; things seen, things said, memories, clues from life, blackness, light, line, desire. Space becomes visible breathable liquid, and walking is impossible. Life is one big nourishing thing, unseparated by who is who and what is what.
I have two jobs on this planet,. One brings in money to stay here, the other I shirk going to, for once there, I never want to leave.
Colin Gray
August 2001
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