Can’t loose hard fought momentum and settle back into non-production. Artistic inertia works both ways, body making art tends to stay making art, body not making art tends to stay not making art…BUT…this is only the case in a vacuum. Unless constant force is applied a body making art will succumb to friction and slowly come to rest again as a body not making art. THEN to get going again one has to fight both the inertia AND friction to get going again.

  • Go big. Really big. – NOBODY BUYS BIG ART!
  • Study an art discipline completely different from painting to get my brain working with new thought patterns. – DOES NETFLIX COUNT?
  • Read books about subjects unrelated to art – right now I’m reading books about the Grail Legend and Alchemy. – CHECK!
  • Stop reading Art Marketing books. – NEVER STARTED!
inertia - hard to stop suddenly without eating shit
Inertia can be nice once you’re going but at some point you might eat shit.

“Inertia. They say it’s the natural state of the natural world. Sort of like those brush hairs stuck in the dry paint. But artists have a solution to that. Don’t they?” – Sue Smith

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Posted by Dick Van der Wurst

Having descended down into South Texas through the Hill Country one day long ago, Dick never claimed to be Texan, but his German heritage and love for tacos is something he shares with the inhabitants of the region. Having earned an MFA from Miami University, OH, he spent the worst years of his life up north, maturing artistically and refining an Iconoclasmatic Pop Art™ style shaped by his experiences as a recovering Catholic, cancer survivor and optimistic existentialist. He lives and works in his humble turquoise studio-home (Dick’s WurstHaus Art Shanty) near downtown San Antonio.

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