Dave Lukas

What’s been taking up brain space for me the past week.

• Reminder that my energy and emotions fluctuate from day to day. To pay attention and be aware but just let them be and observe. Like clouds passing in the sky.
• Annoyed at myself for circling on the same concepts. But are they figure out-able? Is there an other side to them? Do I need to move to acceptance that they’ll never be answered? Cause trying to solve them hasn’t worked.
• The magic of re-visiting old journals. Discovering old practices and ideas. And reminder of the evolution of my artwork. But I have to keep showing up and creating for this evolution to happen.
• Creating just to live the quote by Sarah Leavitt to make a “pile of imperfect things”.
• Also reminding myself of what Lynda Barry says about creating to have an experience.

Here’s some of what I created this week

Things that have been taking up brain space this week:

• Feeling stalled out on topics or reminders to journal about
• The idea of looking at things and decisions with the question “what would a _____ do?” The blank being “artist” or “athlete” or “present spouse” or “attentive Dad” etc
• The enjoyment of making a mixtape for my father in law
• Do I create a set schedule to post or write or create? Like every Monday I’ll post something or every Friday I’ll share 5 things from my week. As a way to keep myself accountable for creating and showing up.
• Feeling stuck and in a bad mood and then creating a collage to try and capture those emotions. And then feeling lighter after making a collage.

Here are some of the things I created this week: