Let the weather clear the canvas
One of my favorite artists is David Zinn.
Zinn is a well known illustrator, often seen making imaginative street art with chalk in Ann Arbor.
Zinn said in an interview with Create Michigan, “I started doing it as an excuse to be outside on a nice day, but still be doing art so it wasn’t completely irresponsible…”
There are so many great quotes in that interview, and I encourage you to watch all eight minutes of it. My favorite topic is how Zinn embraces–enjoys!–the fact that weather will wash away his art in time: “It makes me comfortable, whatever I don’t like about my art, it doesn’t matter, because tomorrow I will draw something else!”
I think this is one reason I enjoy performing live more than recording. I get so nervous about the “foreverness” to recording a song, which is quite egotistical. (Is anything really forever?)
Imagine the endless possibilities if more of us embrace this freedom of the temporary nature of art.
One of David Zinn’s pieces that have lasted longer than others, in the Blue Tractor Brewery’s basement bar, mash!
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