I have always struggled with being a perfectionist and feeling that everything I make has to be perfect. I always felt that if a work was going to be perfect I’d have to love it and the process of making it. Through the years I’ve come to realize that it’s ok if I don’t love the process of making a piece and it’s also ok to not love the piece itself. We can learn just as much if not more from the pieces we don’t love compared to the ones we do love.
This piece is one I made for my 3D design class and I don’t love it and especially didn’t love the process of making it. This was a project that from the very beginning I didn’t enjoy. I didn’t like the concept of it so I didn’t have as much patience as I normally do during the process of making the piece. I am someone that will either have all the patience in the world or none at all, for this piece I had none at all. I didn’t like the piece from the start and I had very little interest in the materials I was to use for this so I didn’t have the patience needed to use the materials.
Because I was struggling with having patience it took me longer to complete this project compared to others and I didn’t enjoy the process at all. The finished product is not my favorite piece, it’s definitely not one that I’d put in a gallery but it is one I’ve learned from. I’ve learned even if I don’t enjoy what I’m making I need to give myself time and have patience. It’s very common as an art student to have to make pieces we don’t enjoy and that isn’t necessarily our styles but it’s important to learn how to do this with our best efforts. Though we have to make these pieces with our best efforts we don’t have to love them or even like them, we just have to accept them for what they are.
This is one of my pieces that I don’t love and that I honestly don’t even like but that’s ok, I accept it for what it is. It’s not a perfect piece, it’s not my style and that’s ok. It doesn’t have to be perfect it’s simply something I’ve learned from and that’s all it needs to be. I’ve learned I struggle to have patience with pieces/projects I don’t like and I’m learning to work through that and have more patience. I’ve learned to accept nothing is perfect and that’s ok. I’ve learned to accept my work for what it is even if it’s something I don’t particularly like. It’s ok to not love everything you create as long as you can learn something from it.
