Anna Brones advises artists to manage their physical and mental clutter to foster creativity. She highlights the importance of regularly sorting through and discarding old artwork and supplies, despite the mixed emotions this can evoke. Brones emphasizes the paradox of wanting to create more while consuming less and the environmental impact of both digital and physical art storage. She suggests that letting go of past work can make room for new creative endeavors and shares examples of famous artists who destroyed their own art to maintain their creative freedom. Ultimately, she encourages artists to find balance by clearing their space and mind to improve their creative process.
Jeremy Beckler
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Create, Keep, Destroy?
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Personally, I love keeping old stuff I've written and created. It reminds me how far I've come. It's like old photos. I can't go back to that time, but I can be proud of where I've come from and where I'm going.
I can agree with that. It’s like a time capsule of your previous work and progression.
Even for digital stuff, it's expensive holding on to GBs of storage and continuing to buy new hard drives or pay for online storage. I've been struggling to delete that stuff because I almost never see it.