Open Studio Grafisch Collectief Thoets

Last weekend me and my colleagues at Grafisch Collectief Thoets had our open studio Sunday.

It was fun but compared to the exhibition weekend I organized last April it was soooo quiet…

At the end of the day I started doubting myself.

Was my work not good enough? Maybe the way it was displayed on the wall wasn’t working?
Or maybe the art didn’t work well together…

Also I find it very challenging to divide time between all of my different guests: friends, family, old customers, potential new customers… Maybe I did it all wrong!

Maybe I did some of these things wrong, maybe, but then I thought I just had this big show in April, people had just seen me (and my art).

Also we started promoting the event quite late, only 2 weeks ahead of time.

Next to our event there was a lot happening that weekend, a big comic festival in Haarlem, the start of Terschellings theatre festival Oerol and probably much more…

Today there was a new episode of a podcast that I like, the Creative Pep Talk by Andy Miller and the theme of the show fitted perfectly: Breaking Through (creative) Anxiety.

Or as Miller puts it: ‘Creating from a place of anxiety is like trying to plant a garden on concrete.’