Eleven Sentences About Sitting Alone Projects

A drawing of Sol LeWitt’s “Sentences on Conceptual Art”

I’ve always liked numbered lists of rules, ideas, or just sentences that artists or groups make for themselves to follow. It’s a unique insight into the creator’s mind, their intentions. And it also provides the audience with a way to understand and evaluate the work that they create. So, I’m going to give this is a try. It’s off the cuff and not too edited.

Eleven Sentences About Sitting Alone Projects

1. All project ideas come from a thought that is first manifest in a drawing.

2. Projects must maintain the presence of the originating line drawing.

3. The first idea is the typically the one to go with.

4. Prime numbers are ideal.

5. Allowing your mood and the world around to guide the lines you draw makes your work contemporary.

6. Don’t be consumed with relevancy.

7. Be concerned about irrelevancy.

8. Don’t think while you’re making.

9. Obsession and repetition are nurturing.

10. You can make the same thing over and over again and it will result in something new.

11. There’s always multiple ways to interpret the same thing.