Someone just told me “you can’t rush art”.
When I was making handmade jewelry, I was often caught deciding when fine is fine, when perfect is perfect..
And now that I look back the box I have all the unfinished pieces, they were all such awesome designs / ideas… just that they are unfinished, and, never been published nor shared.
Being an artist my biggest struggle then was to decide on how to end a design, many, many designs left unfinished because I can’t find a way to end them. In the later stage of my designing career I took a step back and changed some terminologies – it became easier when I end my design as an “project”, it became “how do I end an project”, instead of “how do I end a design”.
Can’t relate?
Imagine Steve Jobs waited until the technologies were perfect to product his ideal iPhone…
Imagine George Lucas waited until the technologies were perfect to produce Star Wars…
It may never happened…
Great work takes time. Sure enough. But sometimes the imperfections need to exist first, for the more advanced tools and technologies to be needed, to be created, to polish, to perfect a piece of art.
My signature design, PIPA Earrings, were poorly constructed when I first releases it, I took years to improve it, and countless others took years to personalize it. You can’t rush art, but I believe imperfections should be allowed and accepted.
For you artists out there, it is absolutely fine to present your work to the world before it was perfect, you don’t know how far that design can go when it’s presented, you don’t know what you or it could achieve.
I miss making jewelry. ❤️
Sides, I bumped into George Lucas in Sydney in year 2000. I didn’t know who he was, my then boyfriend thought he was George but he was too chicken to ask, I stepped up and he said yes he’s George Lucas so we had a photo together. XD
