1. I don’t think it’s that he doesn’t care about his work, I think it has more to do with the fact that he doesn’t put an excess amount of thought into his work. He creates because he enjoys creating, he doesn’t create for any audience, and I don’t think he thinks much about his art outside of himself. I also think that rather than not caring about his work, he doesn’t care what people think about it. He might create it on the scale that he does because he’s popular, but he doesn’t care that he’s popular and he doesn’t try and figure out why.

2. We had to kind of let go of control of the last project. We couldn’t stage the pictures the way we wanted to, and we couldn’t make anything perfectly. Andy mentions that he’s always surprised at the way his paintings turn out, but he doesn’t ever seem disappointed by that. We need to be able to roll with the punches and create for the sake of creation rather than to accomplish a goal. If we end up thinking too much about it, we just end up getting frustrated at not being able to create our ‘vision.’

Personal Reflection

1.  I’m usually pretty full of excitement over my ideas. This leads to trouble in letting go of things that I might find essential but really have little meaning or serve any purpose to the project. But I don’t get terribly self-conscious. I don’t even know what there is to be self-conscious about. Are people going to like it? Doesn’t matter. Am I going to get a good grade? Well, did I follow the instructions to the best of my abilities? If the answer is yes than I’ve done what I can so.

2. First I think it’s a pretty great attitude to have. If you live a ‘grand theft auto’ life, there aren’t any limits. You create for yourself. The con of this is that you can also lose standards. If you don’t care whether people like your work or not, you have little reason to push or challenge yourself to create.