No, seriously though. 2016, not so much just around the corner as reaching out to shake hands, and I don't feel I've really managed to get to know this last year. Or the one before or the one before that, if I'm honest. Maybe that's the thing with years - they're more passing acquaintances than close friends. Perhaps it's better that way.
I've given up on the whole Resolutions thing - they're mostly gone before the end of the first day, and telling people or not doesn't make the slightest odds as to whether or not I keep to them. I don't. Instead I'll spend the first little while figuring out exactly what printmaking and book arts I think I want to achieve in the next twelve months, in quite some detail, and then I'll go for it. It'll change, of course it will, it always does, but if I can at least stick with the 'go for it' bit, something might come out of it. I feel like I've had a fallow making stretch since forever - now seems an awfully good time to break it. Perhaps, a year from now, I'll be saying something other than 'So what did I do with that one?' That would, actually, be an achievement in itself.
I've given up on the whole Resolutions thing - they're mostly gone before the end of the first day, and telling people or not doesn't make the slightest odds as to whether or not I keep to them. I don't. Instead I'll spend the first little while figuring out exactly what printmaking and book arts I think I want to achieve in the next twelve months, in quite some detail, and then I'll go for it. It'll change, of course it will, it always does, but if I can at least stick with the 'go for it' bit, something might come out of it. I feel like I've had a fallow making stretch since forever - now seems an awfully good time to break it. Perhaps, a year from now, I'll be saying something other than 'So what did I do with that one?' That would, actually, be an achievement in itself.
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