{"id":57,"date":"2006-04-26T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2006-04-26T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T13:37:00","slug":"my-studio-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/26\/my-studio-table\/","title":{"rendered":"My studio table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/hello\/1\/7883\/1024\/2006-04-26%20studio%20table.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/hello\/1\/7883\/200\/2006-04-26%20studio%20table.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>This table sits in the middle of studio. Nearly every one of the countless times I walk past it every day, I react to this table in three ways, often all simultaneously:<br \/>1. Delight: Look at all these cool things I&#8217;m working on. What is the next step forward?<br \/>2. Angst: Look at all these unfinished projects. Will any of them every amount to anything? Can I succeed at any of them? What about the things I&#8217;ve finished. Are they finished? If so, what do I do with them now? What is the next step forward?<br \/>3. Irritation: Look at this clutter! Maybe the next step forward is to clear it all off so the area will be neat and tidy.<\/p>\n<p>I realize that I treat other people&#8217;s work with a lot more respect and sympathy. Once, many years ago, I turned the corner of the hallway in a house and came upon a framed piece of calligraphy. It was delightful for just one moment to admire this excellent piece of original calligraphy. I even thought to myself: &#8220;This is much better calligraphy than one usually sees.&#8221; Then I recognized it as mine. I could practically see myself shift from relaxed appreciation to criticism: &#8220;Oh, the letter forms are better than I remembered being able to do back then, but look at that <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">spacing<\/span>. Ugh! And what about margins, where is the white space around the text block? Did I never stand back and look at the piece as a whole? (Am I still forgetting to do that?) And that drawing. I should really not be drawing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the eternal balancing act:<br \/>If I were to drop the critical appraisal altogether, where would be the challenge, the motivation, the engagement? But when I forget to appreciate where I am, I become paralyzed by the disappointments, mistakes, the constant lag between my critical eye and my actual skill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This table sits in the middle of studio. Nearly every one of the countless times I walk past it every day, I react to this table in three ways, often all simultaneously:1. Delight: Look at all these cool things I&#8217;m working on. What is the next step forward?2. Angst: Look at all these unfinished projects. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/26\/my-studio-table\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My studio table&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-something-else"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-V","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}