Sedaris 

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• In Reflection
  by RedBubble

  I’ve been reading the American humorist David Sedaris. He rabbits on about himself. He makes…

  I’ve been reading the American humorist David Sedaris. He rabbits on about himself. He makes me laugh and wince and sometimes ponder. In his art he puts a mirror up to himself and tells us what he sees. He is in equal measure intolerably self-obsessed and sublimely self-reflective: “After a few months in my parents’ basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.” (from Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim) You get the idea. Ironically, in creating his art he has lifted himself out of the alcoholism, drug addiction and mental illness that provided the initial fuel for it. As you cruise through many of the journal entries on RedBubble you will find that Sedaris is not alone in finding his art to be profoundly healing. Try here. I regularly build and fix things at the farm and will often stare back at what I have done. Well-laid concrete will transform a gloomy day. Hours can pass in the creation with my mind at rest. Anxiety or despondency sinks in when I am no longer creating. Or even worse when I constantly measure what I create by what others think of if it or what it may achieve. Farm work isn’t art. Art ponders on the very act of creation itself and reaches towards an even deeper significance. I am going to do a glass blowing course next month. Without RedBubble I doubt I would have sought to journey further into the reflection. Martin (aka Pilgrim)