It has been a busy week. I started by getting rid of the clutter on my desk. I tend to have lots of ideas and start 10 projects at once and then don’t have time to finish them.. So my desk was filled with half-finished projects: Dia-slides from my grandfather which I still have to scan and organize, half-finished letters to my friends, pieces of cool paper I bought for making my own stationary, boring forms about finances I still have to fill in, empty jars and bottles which I still want to paint. A few days ago I put together a small calendar which came with Flow Magazine. Every day has an interesting quote. One of these quotes said: “Te veel mensen steken te veel tijd in het perfectioneren van een idee voor ze het uitvoeren. In plaats van te wachten op iets perfects, begin je gewoon met wat je hebt en verbeter je gaandeweg” / “To many people spend to much time in improving an idea before they actually execute it. Instead of waiting for something perfect you should start with what you’ve got and improve along the way”. Maybe I should do that, instead of trying to do 10 projects at once just start one or two and completely focus on those projects and put the other ones on a hold. In that way I can concentrate better and actually finish a project in a few weeks instead of a few months (what happened when I do loads of projects at once).

So every week I want to chose just 2 projects to work on. This week I chose to focus on my stationary project and my upcoming exhibition. I made a few testprints on different sorts of paper for a small notebook I want to sell on etsy. I chose to start with a set of 4 different booklets. They all have a different photo on the cover and are printed on two different types of paper. Two of them will have lined paper and the other one blank paper. My exhibition is almost finished. I’m showing two different series. One of them is exhibited as a collage containing photos and articles. Four photos of the collage are also shown as large prints. The other series contains of four big photos of several bands. Next week the opening takes place.