Change is Banana

I discovered change late in life. I managed all the way up to 40 yesrs old not notiving it was the basic constant. since, I see just that. Pema Chodron says life changes all the time and if you dont believe it just look out the window, or at the mirror.

How does this is helping us now? resisting change brings suffering thats just how it is. the fastest we let go and move on the less we suffer so it seems. how can we apply this to here and now?

Art yifat gat / model sara gat / photos julia gat

My Sara says change is Banana, basically she means ok mom, I got it.

Not only Im all for change is Banana, I actually think it should have been the title of this coloring book.

Oh well, next time. In the mean time enjoy this free PDF version down here

If you know someone with a kid pass it on.

If you actually get around to coloring it, please send me pics, I would love to see those…

Take care

much love

yifat

Corona coloring book

This hybrid between catalog and coloring book was born during corona days. Julia and Sara came knocking on my studio door. Julia had a camera in her hand and I had just finished this series of works. We went outside and I said, you know what, there is still some light. As Julia was taking Sara's pictures the white background of the works seems like papers to me and i thought this could be a coloring book. I love coloring books. I should have lead with that. They are one of my childhood sweet memories. My favourite school activity …

CORONA STUDIO

A4 papers

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A pencil or pan or marker

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Corona studio time

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That simple.

Have a pile of office papers on the dining room table and a glass with what ever you can find to draw with. thats it, your studio is ready.

Drawing can help you get through this, can help engage in conversation, tell stories, vent anxiety, stay playful and create magic.

Stay solid. Draw.

The happiness trap: How to win the battle between money and meaning

“If you’re using your passion and skills to help others, but not making money, then this is solely a hobby or pro bono work, not a business.

If you want to build a business, then you can’t avoid the fact that you’ll need to start making money. If you battle with charging for something you love doing, then you have work to do.

If you’re in this group it’s time you started to act, and think, more like an entrepreneur:

• Develop a different money mindset

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“Money is like a mirror, showing you who you want to be. In the mirror you see the reflection of the free you, the secure you, the enabled you. So you believe money really is those things. You see those powers when you look at money.” Tom Nixon

The game

Putting the work in the middle, has always been important to me, because otherwise whats the point, right?

As a lover of data and flow charts, I been trying to find a work model that is clear, repeatable, scalable, and long term. Basketball seemed like a good metaphor for the game.

How do I use this chart?

Sometimes when I have to deal with different disciplines i get confused or overwhelmed. looking at the chart brings a sense of order. its ok to take care of a store / dealer/ student/ dealer / project issues all in one day, just same of the same list. It also reminds me that the prize is the work in the middle …

Giving form vs giving birth

I learned about natural birth through five labors .

I never thought this could be of any use in my art blog but here we are.

I was invited on FB to a group called giving form and than It clicked - how did I not see it before?

yes, its the same.

why how where ? ??

kind of everything about it really.

take the famous pushing scene from all the movies. its false.

In natural birth we let it flow like the river. you are not to push, it comes out by itself, you are to not disturb, find the position most comfortable and make room for it.

Art? Birth? same …

about work

Dealing with form color and scale as a path towards sustainable liberation, my process is a funny one because I’m actually a perfectionist doomed to fail, over and over again. Hunted by the powers in play, I choose submission over the illusion of having a choice. When not complaining I know I’m a surfer riding one of the most amazing waves there is, When I do catch a good one, Its connecting me to eternity, Universal knowledge and all my previous and future lives, worth it. so here I am, doing the only thing im good for. catching waves.

Space

same lines different context - different meaning

Thomas Nozkowski in his own words.

“the idea of knowing what a painting is going to end up being just drives me crazy. That’s absolutely against the rules. I want to be happy in my studio. I want it to be exciting, and I don’t want it to be a job.”

Untitled (MH-5), 2014

“For political reasons, I found the kind of large scale, macho-man abstractions of early SoHo beneath contempt.

These were painters that I liked and admired, and I remember going to shows and seeing a painting that was 20 feet long—it’s like the 800-pound gorilla that sits wherever it wants to sit.

I didn’t want to paint that way, and I decided I would paint at a size that was scaled to my friends’ apartments, that could hang in a three-room walkup tenement on 7th Street.

That was the first big decision. “

“The idea that you can work very quickly is crucial. Another component is the idea that you can have these things in your home, that it’s not a special project to have an art collection. You can have 10 paintings hanging on a wall—what a feast! On a practical level, you can carry them around with you. I have a house in the country and a house in the city, and they fit in the backseat of the car. The issue is to be able to keep working, to be able to pursue your dreams for lack of a better term. This allowed me to do that. “

“The nice thing about the world is that everything stretches out to touch everything else, creating these references and connections beyond the visual scene at hand.

There’s a painting in this show with some Matissean curvy shapes painted in a Matisse blue—that’s not an accident, it was a decision to draw upon that blue for that particular move.”

“I just don’t want to do the same thing over and over again. When I first started working this way, I thought that if I was as absolutely, painfully sincere as possible about what I was doing I would within some short period of time develop a signature style.

I thought that somewhere deep inside was this signature style that would come out if I just let it. To my amazement, no such signature style came to be! I’ve come to understand the signature style as a weakness—that’s as far as you can go. It’s not where you want to go, it’s where your system takes you and stops. It’s like the Peter Principle, “failing upwards.” How far can you fail?”

“I do like the idea of saying “look, every question is different, every problem is different, why shouldn’t every painting be different?” You don’t want to get carpal tunnel, always doing the same damn painting!”

As a painter, you have a project: there’s a thing in the world you want to make a picture of. How do you make a picture of a feeling, of a mood, of a quality of life, even of something like a sunset? The answer is that you just start, and you do it as well as you can. At a minimum, you will succeed in having a picture of how well you could do something. You’re reaching for that sunset. 

I work every day. I have a little less stamina as I’ve gotten older, but here’s a thing—all of my ideas about why I make work, why I think other people should make work, are up for grabs. It may or may not mean anything. But what it does mean for me is it gives me a reason to be in the studio that I find compelling. I’m fascinated by being in the studio. Sometimes I’m not happy about it, it’s a real battle. But for me, there’s always something new to find, something new to do. I certainly hope that lasts forever. It feels like it will. It’s been 40 years

RIP