BLUE SKIES FALLING
Most of Blue Skies Falling occurs through activities familiar to many artists. For example, I maintain both public (my blog) and private journals, and try to approach daily routine, from riding the bus to washing dishes, with an artistic eye; an eye for how such an experience might be subjectively rendered for an audience.
The comprehensive approach of Blue Skies Falling, however, is both more rigorous and involved, although the particulars are not as important as the attitude they inspire.
This process involves three divisions of the year, which I call "eventime," "godtime," and "calendartime." Each cycle imparts certain obligations which I am bound to meet.
Calendartime is simply the year as recognized by society at large, and requires participating in acknowledged social rituals from spring cleaning to attending carnivals.
Godtime is the religious year, in my case the Roman Catholic liturgical year, and requires weekly (eg. attendance of mass) and seasonal (eg. Lenten fasting) obligations, as well as self-imposed obligations, such as a schedule of religious readings.
Eventime is a personal calendar I developed starting in sixth grade that involves recreating and reinterpreting meaningful activities every thirty days over the course of the year, as well as giving each year a name based on its overall importance at each Summer Solstice.
As I said, the particulars are, while significant, not fixed. The overall goal of this process is to impose an attitude of discipline, feeling, focus, and self-scrutiny. For better or worse, artists are not monks these days. We live in the world, have developed and material relationships, and pursue the same commercial and economic advantages all our peers.
Blue Skies Falling attempts to inspire an integration of art and life, as well as the disposition to make the best use of both.
