Crafty Tuesday: In Art Failure is an Option
Posted By Kathleen David on May 19, 2020
Day 65 of the Homebound Saga
I have been working on a recreation of one of my favorite Muppets for me. It is an experiment that lets me play around with things and try some new shapes and figure out how the original puppet was built. I never sell these because I am a firm believer in Intellectual Property.
I put together the body and was working on the face when I asked Peter about the nose. He asked to see a picture of the puppet and I pulled it up. He took one look and said, “The head is wrong.” He showed me what he was talking about and sure enough it is wrong. I am going to go back and remake the head now that I can see what I need to do.
Failure is part of the creative process.
Sometimes you can turn those failures into successes. Other times you scrap it and move on.
Not everything you create is going to be a success. Sometimes it is a success in your eyes but no one else seems to get it. Other times you think it is a failure, but to others it is the most amazing thing they have ever seen.
It is through screwing up that we learn and get better at what we do.
Caroline and I were talking about success and failure on our walk the other day. She talked about how some people give up after they can’t succeed the first time they try something. The idea that if you are not an instant success then you are a failure not realizing that instant success can be 20 years in the making. Instant success is a rare beast indeed. Many of those successes are built on years of hard work and failure.
People saying No or finding reasons not to allow you to present your work to a larger audience.
You keep going and honing your skills until someone says Yes, I like that.
I have failed spectacularly. I have also succeeded beyond my wildest imagination.
A big part of it is just trying.
Or as a friend of mine put it. There is no true failure rather lessons learn and applied to the next time.
I am grateful for my successes.
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