your art is not a canned dog food

Your art is not a timetable.

When we deliver the things we are working on, we encounter various configurations in how they can turn out. Yet, we want to treat them like a departure timetable.

How much fun is left for us? And how much burden and stress does it cost us to think about the outcome and its acceptance by others?

I produce my best work when I simply set the direction and get lost in the process without spending a single second thinking about how it’s going to turn out. That’s fun!

Everything else you feel is just there to confuse and stress you out.

Think of the time you got lost in the moment of creating and how the result turned out. It was either exactly what you envisioned or, more likely, much better than the outcome you had been worrying about for days or weeks.

Your art is not canned dog food. It is a probability distribution at every step of the way, so why do you want it to turn into canned dog food?