But on the other hand, if at some point you become unable to respond (artistically) to your biting self-criticism, there's the danger of ceasing production entirely. Then five years go by.
Very true. It's very difficult when your self-criticism turns into self-hatred. It's the merging of identities, you can no longer separate yourself as a person from your creations.
There's this sense of clinging too tightly to your work that you never get far enough away from it to learn from it. It consumes you and leads right into that merging of identities concept.
There's this sense of clinging too tightly to your work that you never get far enough away from it to learn from it. It consumes you and leads right into that merging of identities concept.