I'm an experimenter. I'm insanely curious. I like to think of art in terms of a series of hypotheses that I'm working out. There is a "right" answer. It's up to me as the artist to find it. I take a strangely scientific approach to my work.
Honestly every good experiment fails at least once or twice before you get what you where looking for. In fact I think that if you do something so safe that you are destined to succeed the first time, than you are once again a failure because you took the already known path. The point of art is to experiment, and experiments fail. Theories are adjusted only to try again and eventually find "success".
I've been thinking about failure a lot recently. I'm no hater, but I'm also not falsely positive about the world. I see both as symptoms of insecurity.
I like to have reasons for thinking what I think and not fall back on my default emotionality.
So not to be falsely positive, but I think it's safe to say that failure is actually a good thing.
I think it's unfortunate that we are taught from a early age that it's bad. It's like a Pavlovian response for me now. Things don't go "right" and my anxiety spikes, keeping me from wanting to continue whatever I'm doing. It's a good thing I try to reason through my emotions and not be ruled by them or I would never even leave the house.
- for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so - Hamlet
