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Obsession - Installment 1

9/11/2015

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What is art if not obsession?

Billy Pappas started a drawing of Marilyn Monroe in 1994, wanting to set a new standard for realistic imagery. He worked on the portrait full-time for nearly nine years. There is a documentary about his work called Waiting for Hockney.

Tim Jenison is an inventor who believed that Johannes Vermeer used a camera obscura to paint his paintings. He went on to try to replicate The Music Lesson using this technique. Talk about obsessed - he starts out by going to Buckingham Palace to view the original, then recreates the scene and makes everything in the scene by hand, including a harpsichord - BEFORE he even starts painting. The whole project took years. Check out the film about it - Tim's Vermeer.

Hell, it took Michelangelo 4 years to paint the Sistine Chapel after negotiating to do it how he wanted. He even designed his own scaffolding.

I could go on, but I'm sure you get the idea.

Do artists become good because they are obsessed or do they become obsessed because they are good?

A couple of weeks ago I found a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle and because we really don't eat dinner on the dinner table I found a had a place to set it up and work on it. It was a compilation of Norman Rockwell paintings - that's art, right?

Well, I became obsessed with working on this puzzle, it was all I could or wanted to do. Some nights I'd be up until 3 or 4 in the morning, looking for 'just one more piece.'
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Well, needless to say, I found a whole bunch of 500 piece puzzles (of food, no less!) at the thrift store for $.50 each! I bought them all. And continued on my journey.
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Doing puzzle after puzzle, I decided that I would stack them and then I can create something artistic with it when I'm done.

My husband keeps asking me why I keep doing this or why I am doing this. And the truth is - I just really like doing jigsaw puzzles, but it feels so frivolous to just do them for now reason - so then I become obsessed (again) to turn them into art.

So, I decided to document the process (to make it all even more meaningful - cuz you know that's important) and here is my first installment of my puzzle blog. As a friend once said to me - what could you possibly have to say about doing puzzles - you pick out the edge pieces, make the frame and then fill it in?
We all know that's not true... I have many keen observations and wisdom from my puzzledom (or puzzledumb) that I will be sharing with you... please stay tuned for Obsession - Installment 2...

In the meantime... Are YOU obsessed with something? Tell us about it in the comments below!!
2 Comments
Cynthia B
9/11/2015 07:47:39 pm

Hahaha! Yes. I get obsessed with pretty much any craft/art that comes into my interest field.
I think the tendency to obsessiveness comes first but I'm not positive.

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evelyn link
9/12/2015 02:59:48 pm

Ha! Always good to know I'm not the only one!! Got any pix of any thing you obsessed over?!

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