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Sat Jan 3, 2009, 3:44 AM

Mood: Content
Listening to: Nation FM
Reading: What the bleep do we know?
Drinking: Weak (very) coffee

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Why do we always refer to our creations as 'work'?

Perhaps I associate the word 'work' with 'hard' or 'something I do because I have to'. I've used the term in reference to my 'art' but I don't consider creating art 'work', I consider it '

leasure'. Which shows that in my neuro-net work is related to effort/lack of enjoyment/not fun/something that has to be done rather than something that is enjoyment/pleasurable/fun.

Just a thought ...

I'm having a lot of them lately ... must be something to do with 'What the bleep do we know?'. And if it is, then hoorah something is working!

I realise I rarely set myself questions or challenges or think about deeper issues such as the meaning of life, the universe and everything ( the answer to which, according to Douglas Adams in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is 42).

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~Lilielo-Lawliet Jan 3, 2009, 6:41:02 AM

it might just be a different term with the same word. or because of effort put in.

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Peachy keen!

~JSkoht Jan 3, 2009, 8:14:49 AM

Artwyrd,

I love your journals. Please keep sharing your thoughts. I saw the WTBDWK movie a couple years ago and I was most moved by the words written upon the water piece. Oh that reminds me, I use the word, "piece" instead of work. I like that it sounds the same as peace, especially since it gives me that.

*Zage56 Jan 3, 2009, 9:17:17 AM

Art "work" is an interesting thought.
I believe you are right about the creation of art as being a pleasure.
The pleasure of creation is difficult when there are distractions. I do find creating art can be work, when I find myself being taken away from my creation, and having to refocus on my art again, and yet again.
I love it when I can get into a spirited pleasure of drawing or creation, I just hate it, when I feel like I have to "work" at enjoying it.

*Artwyrd Jan 3, 2009, 1:26:35 PM

Interruptions can be irksome - it is they that are the 'hard work'! Sometimes though, in hindsight, they can be most welcome - you realise your neck/shoulders ache and your eyes are tired ... or you're still up at 2am drawing and the cat is peeved 'cos he wants to curl up on the bed with you! It's usually my cat that disturbs me, blessim, though he's never managed to spoil a piece of art, yet ... he does like to roll in pastels though, and being a white pusscat he ends up rainbow coloured!

I find being back at work, teaching, a pain as that keeps me from my art! But then I usually draw/paint during breaks and lunch time as 'stress relief'. My chill out time!

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What you think you create.
What you feel you attract.
What you imagine you become.

*Artwyrd Jan 3, 2009, 1:30:31 PM

I was told about the film a couple of years ago, but it was only in the summer I stumbled across the book, and it's only in the last week I've picked it up to read ... and well, it's nice that other people are saying what has been in my thoughts for a long time, and and also puts different words on things that I can accept and understand - something I have trouble with where buddhism, journey-work and other such things are concerned...

And yes, piece/peace is a good word to use

I find doing art can bring me peace when I am stressed/depressed/upset/etc ... and it turns the negativity into positivity and calm, especially when I get 'in the flow'.

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What you think you create.
What you feel you attract.
What you imagine you become.

*Artwyrd Jan 3, 2009, 1:37:51 PM

It could be. I went and looked it up in an online thesaurus

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And work also can mean achievement ... as a noun that is ... not something I'd considered before ... which just goes to show how the connections in my brain are wired when the word 'work' is mentioned!

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What you think you create.
What you feel you attract.
What you imagine you become.