Now that I’m close to the end of my year long project (under 20 days to go) I thought I should start sharing with you what I’m taking away from this experience.

First off, I think that most of the work is NOT a fair representation of my work. About 90% of it I wish would have never seen the light of day. That is why this experiment is becoming very interesting. I’ve gotten from a few people that the fact that I post something every day, and that I don’t censor what makes it to the site, is what’s interesting to them. They enjoy seeing the process, even though it hurts me sometimes to look back on some of it.

For probably the last 100 days or so, I felt like doing this project was a big mistake. I felt bad about it, I was wishing it would turn out to be something completely different than it is.  I then had a conversation with my friend Scott, and he boosted my spirits about it, giving me a little motivation to finish out the project with a little style. About the same time as this conversation, I went to my homepage (www.andyerickson.net) and noticed how much I like my randomized mosaic of the art project on that page. They both made me look at the project as a whole, and not at it’s individual parts. The whole year long project is the art, not the daily entries.What I’m doing, not what I’m producing is where the art is. As it always is, life is the art.

I’m going to try and throw in some more narratives into the blog before I end it in a few weeks. I need to get these ideas off my chest, and hopefully help you understand what I was trying to do this whole year.