Comments on: Meanwhile, in the Land of Make Believe… http://scottelfstrom.com/journal/2006/08/16/meanwhile-in-the-land-of-make-believe/ sometimes it makes sense Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:59:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: giromide http://scottelfstrom.com/journal/2006/08/16/meanwhile-in-the-land-of-make-believe/#comment-34 giromide Mon, 04 Sep 2006 04:31:47 +0000 http://scottelfstrom.com/journal/2006/08/16/meanwhile-in-the-land-of-make-believe/#comment-34 <p>Don't you consider your current employment to be something that exercises your creative muscles? Your job demands some aesthetic sensibilities.</p> <p>I wish I were in a situation where I could be imaginative for pay... well, for pay that could afford me a house and support my family. As it is, my exhausting job depletes the imaginative part of my brain.</p> <p>I stopped sketching on a constant basis in college. I can't say why. I never lost my urge to create, but I think I wanted to focus too much on "college" and studies. I took a great little class through the Art Institute of Chicago that not only reinvigorated me but actually taught me some rules of composition that I must have chose to have ignored way back in junior high art classes.</p> <p>I'm trying. God knows I'm trying to find my way.</p> Don’t you consider your current employment to be something that exercises your creative muscles? Your job demands some aesthetic sensibilities.

I wish I were in a situation where I could be imaginative for pay… well, for pay that could afford me a house and support my family. As it is, my exhausting job depletes the imaginative part of my brain.

I stopped sketching on a constant basis in college. I can’t say why. I never lost my urge to create, but I think I wanted to focus too much on “college” and studies. I took a great little class through the Art Institute of Chicago that not only reinvigorated me but actually taught me some rules of composition that I must have chose to have ignored way back in junior high art classes.

I’m trying. God knows I’m trying to find my way.

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