“There is a lot of talk about Substack on Substack.” lol and WORD. Yes to the drive! Yes to not being able to stop! Yes to people who share in the hopes it will benefit others. Thank you for sharing your VVG funnel(s) of obsession ✨ I’m enjoying the swirls! 💗
All about the swirls. And, yes, whenever I have a sort of off-the-wall thought or conversation in my head I figure, “I’m probably not the only one having these thoughts. Let’s have them together.”
I read a Van Gogh biography recently that was profoundly moving. Such a fascinating (and tortured) person in so many ways, but the final burst of creativity--sometimes two paintings a day!
I know! He was churning out those paintings, sometimes painting the same thing over and over again. I love the drive combined with obsession. But I’d also like to keep my ear where it is, attached to my head.
Indeed! I kind of obsess over the fact that he spent so much time doing figure drawings that he hated and that got rid of. Somewhere out there is an alternate world where there are 10,000 drawing of common people by Van Gogh.
Yes! What happened to them? I’m also interested in how determined he was to be a figure painter when it seems to me his real talent was for landscape or still life. Then again, maybe if he could have got more people to sit for him, it would have been different. But as I go deep into my obsession, I think Van Gogh was very much painting particular moments. He had to see the thing he was painting. And when you’re making someone sit still long enough to paint them, maybe that specific moment gets lost? I don’t know. So much to think about.
“There is a lot of talk about Substack on Substack.” lol and WORD. Yes to the drive! Yes to not being able to stop! Yes to people who share in the hopes it will benefit others. Thank you for sharing your VVG funnel(s) of obsession ✨ I’m enjoying the swirls! 💗
All about the swirls. And, yes, whenever I have a sort of off-the-wall thought or conversation in my head I figure, “I’m probably not the only one having these thoughts. Let’s have them together.”
Yeeees. My whole (delusional?) ethos as a human and therefore writer. “I know I’m not the only one!” 🪇
Exactly!
Yes to all of this!
Thanks, Melissa!
I read a Van Gogh biography recently that was profoundly moving. Such a fascinating (and tortured) person in so many ways, but the final burst of creativity--sometimes two paintings a day!
I know! He was churning out those paintings, sometimes painting the same thing over and over again. I love the drive combined with obsession. But I’d also like to keep my ear where it is, attached to my head.
Indeed! I kind of obsess over the fact that he spent so much time doing figure drawings that he hated and that got rid of. Somewhere out there is an alternate world where there are 10,000 drawing of common people by Van Gogh.
Yes! What happened to them? I’m also interested in how determined he was to be a figure painter when it seems to me his real talent was for landscape or still life. Then again, maybe if he could have got more people to sit for him, it would have been different. But as I go deep into my obsession, I think Van Gogh was very much painting particular moments. He had to see the thing he was painting. And when you’re making someone sit still long enough to paint them, maybe that specific moment gets lost? I don’t know. So much to think about.
I love this! Thanks Robyn.
You’re so welcome, Debbie!
This is exactly what I needed to read right now! Thank you!
Glad you are here. Sending love!
Thanks, Satya! Sending you and Kaspa all the good house vibes!
Thank you! We're getting closer 😬