Try and tickle something inside you, your “weird humor.” You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world… You must practice being stupid, dumb, unthinking, empty. Then you will be able to DO…
Try to do some BAD work—the worst you can think of and see what happens but mainly relax and let everything go to hell—you are not responsible for the world—you are only responsible for your work—so DO IT.
Sol Lewitt in letter to Eva Hesse
This has been said many times in different ways, but it's not the call to make bad art that's interesting, it's the fact that the need to make good art is problematic. The concept of value is the opposite of creativity.
Why should that be?
How does it relate to education of art?
How can you have a sense of progress if the concept of good/bad is not just irrelevant, but an impediment?
Or, perhaps it's just that questions of value (good-and-bad, etc), come after the making. This is part of the process of appreciation....
I think not. I have a hunch that the process of assessment is another activity entirely unrelated to making. The so-called critical faculty is not just unhelpful, but unconnected to the making-process
