I’ve been at Ucross for more than a week. Time is flying, and as usual I’m not satisfied with my productivity, but I know that I have been working — revising a couple of stories and playing around with the order of the sequences in A Life’s Work.
Like most everyone else, I can get caught up in “results,” in the end product. I want something to show for my time here. I want to be able to hold up an object and say, “I finished this at Ucross!” But I know I won’t be able to do that, because this is a process, a long process, and my month here will not yield “closure.” At best it will yield a few ideas to take home and develop further.
And that’s great. You’d think that I, a guy making a film about people whose projects won’t be completed in their lifetimes, would go easy on himself.
You’d think that. But you’d be wrong.
When I get all caught up with “completion” at a residency, there’s only one thing to do. Play guitar.
Here are some photos. Hope you like them.
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