5: Flying Paper Swans

Posted on Thursday the 11^th of February, 2010

Today I took a short piece of video footage I recorded a few weeks ago of my beautiful swan mobile and played some piano music along side it.

This was an interesting challenge. My piano ability has only really lived in the confines of my own space; I improvise for pleasure mainly as an outlet for my emotions. Therefore trying to synchronise what I was playing with the feeling of the video was an interesting challenge and experience. I found myself repeatedly watching and playing along with the scene until I ended up with something I was happy enough with.

One of the clearest benefits of explicitly making ‘one new thing’ each day is getting to understand the notion of happy enough. Clearly it’s unreasonable to ask of anyone that they create a masterpiece every day. At least a masterpiece from the creator’s perspective (if indeed that notion exists in a non-platonic form). It’s therefore very obvious that I very quickly need to know when something is good enough. I feel that this will allow me to become more confident of trying things out of my comfort zone and to appreciate what I have achieved rather than looking at what I failed to achieve or, even worse, not trying in the first place.