Notes on the blank canvas, and the fear of it
Why the first mark is the hardest, and the small lie we tell ourselves to make it anyway. Dora writes; Luis disagrees in the footnotes.
PLACEHOLDER body — Dora writing. The blank canvas is a problem we re-invent every time we approach it. The lie we tell ourselves is: the first mark is the important one. It isn’t. The first mark is the ticket-of-entry. The important marks happen in the third hour.
[¹] Luis says: the first mark is exactly the important one and you’re describing a coping mechanism. Both can be true.