souzan snores
@souzanalavi · 0:42
This applies to all things: when do you know you’re done? Along with a photo of a lovely dog in Union Square.
At what point do you decide, hey, I vacuumed enough. How is that process for you? When do you know you're done? When do you know when it's time to walk away?
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:12
I think sometimes we're ready when we're done with the journey, not so much done with the product we're producing, because the process itself has its own ebb and flow and then finality that doesn't always reflect in the result that you could see. And I'm fascinated by it always. I used to write songs a lot, and it was always defined by when I would sing it out loud to other people. But until I sang it out loud, it wasn't done
souzan snores
@souzanalavi · 2:09
In terms of documentaries and films and music videos, if it's something you're doing for someone else, they kind of prod you to finish. And there's a schedule that you have to stick to. Sometimes it's when someone else approves, like, for instance, a music video. If the artist thinks it's great, then you really know to stop. But I could potentially keep tweaking it. The stuff for myself is much harder
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Alon Goldsmith
@babujani · 1:54
So, yeah, I think as far as my photography goes, at any rate, my photos in a constant state of moving between done, undone, semi done, and that's the way I like it. All right, good question. Thank you. Bye
souzan snores
@souzanalavi · 1:15
You. That's an amazing photograph. First off, I really appreciate it because it is in motion, yet you get a sense of his personality. You get somehow a sense of the rhythm of his walk. You do get a sense of what you think is his food. And the photograph does what I think a photograph should do, if possible. And this happens not consciously, but subconsciously it's telling a story, yet I'm allowed to fill it out. So I really appreciate that
souzan snores
@souzanalavi · 0:53
You. That was really well said. You take the painting for the day, and for you it's a journal entry. That makes so much sense. I think I must be doing the same thing. But I was not able to articulate it as well as you have. I also take drawings out and draw on them again and and sometimes I throw them out. So having said that, I can't wait to see more of your paintings and have you talk more about them if you feel comfortable
Poets have said different things about this. That's what I do. I'm a poet. And I can't remember who it was who said they know they're done with a poem when they're putting back in the commas that they recently took out. But I really like what the great poet W. H. Auden said, which was a poem is never done, it's merely abandoned. And it seems to me that that's when you're finished is when you're just ready to walk away
souzan snores
@souzanalavi · 0:43
It that's pretty profound that you're done with the poem. When you walk away or when you can walk away. I think that's pretty spot on in a lot of cases. Sometimes you have no choice but to walk away, and sometimes it's maddening, so you have to leave. Was wondering if you don't mind sharing bring a poem or telling us a little bit about an instance when you actually went back and might have changed a poem
But one of the ways to tell the quality of a watch is the fact if it ticks or not. The smoother it goes, you know what I mean? The better it is. And this thing does not tick. It just moves. It's like you can't even see the actual movement. It's just like it's going in a circle. It don't have to be perfect. It don't have to be quality
souzan snores
@souzanalavi · 1:06
And then do you ever go back and work on something again or change perspective on that moment? Like you're capturing it? Do you ever want to capture it from the other angle or from a different perspective? To me, your drawings are more documentary. They're, in a sense, capturing life in a different way, like as if you are filming them versus just drawing them
And I'm working with three tones. My middle tone is already there. All I have to do is have a real dark pencil and maybe a white charcoal pencil, and then the middle tone is there. So it's a good practice but if you have everything the same shade and you don't have your darkest darks mark and your lightest lights light, it's just so flat. It's crazy. It's just a flat piece of paper
There's nothing. I can turn off the TV completely or hook my phone to my projector and then just project a picture up on the wall and sit here in my chair and just be able to see things. And I always try to get as much detail out of the picture I can, so I'll take it to definition and another one, definition and something else
And then after the book came out, I was going through my files and I realized that I had a first draft of this poem that was in some ways very, very similar, very much an outline for the final draft of the poem, but that also had some really profound and important differences in it, at least to me as an artist. I've posted both of them side by side
souzan snores
@souzanalavi · 0:49
So this process is amazing to follow and not often explained. So thank you so much. I love the poem and feel so fortunate to be able to read the before and after and hear it too. Thanks again
Kaif Malik
@i.kaifmalik · 2:45
Whether in tasks, personal growth, creativity or life's ambitions, the beauty lies in our continuous pursuit the dance between fulfillment and the beginning of new beginnings. Thank you
souzan snores
@souzanalavi · 0:21
You. That was really beautiful. You're right. We are never really, really done. And it's part of being alive that it's never finite. Especially when it comes to creating anything. Thanks a lot. That was incredible. And
Antionette Wiggins
@Queen11 · 2:46
I know when I stop caring, when I stop fighting, when I stop communicating, that's when I get myself together to make the next move I need to make so I can keep my sanity, my joy, my peace, my happiness. That's when I'm done. Be blessed
