My Weird Fear / by Chris Maynard

Random page from my 2019 sketchbook. None of these ideas have been pursued. Maybe someday.

Random page from my 2019 sketchbook. None of these ideas have been pursued. Maybe someday.

My great fear is not about being able to come up with ideas, that is easy. It is about coming up with too many. This morning, I sat in my studio with my pen and sketchbook with the intent to jot down some scratchy drawings toward fulfilling a commission which will consist of four separate pieces. I did this in a few minutes. During the next twenty minutes, from those four ideas flowed twenty more, which have the potential to spawn 50 more. Do you understand what I am saying? I am excited to make every one of my ideas into art and my fear is that I won’t be able to, which I won’t because I always come up with too many ideas.