•process over product• Tracey Emin - In The Dead Dark of night I wanted you, 2018 In quite possibly my favourite art exhibition to date, one that moved me in ways my femininity did not previously acknowledge, stood Tracey Emin’s ‘A Fortnite of Tears’. There is a process that follows this work, a movement from the visceral raw tones of pink and red, to the process of understanding ones sexual identity, to love and loss. The whole exhibition was a process, a journey, a story. It didn’t happen with a neat beginning, middle and end; but there it stood as a moment in time harbouring the tumultuous feelings Emin processed during this vulnerable fortnite. I wonder if Emin was not a well known artist, this process would be as well received. Social conditioning has taught us in this commercial world we live in, that the end product, commodity and result, is more important than the process of getting there. My younger years were spent striving for some moment in the future, some end package neatly wrapped up, and with that losing all sense of the moment I was currently in. It has taken me a long time to truly understand that now is all that will ever exist. The beauty of focussing in the present is that our journey becomes a process. Our creative endeavours do not need to tidily become a product for others to admire. Stripping away this incessant need to have something to show for my creativity, I chose instead to live in my creative moments. To see each day as a process, to know that a product is always unfinished and that is OK. I will always have a lust to learn more about myself so my products will always remain unfinished. If this thought sits uncomfortably with you (which at times it still does with me!), then perhaps you too need to step into the process and away from the need to acknowledge your creative worth only after reaching the product. . . @whitecube @traceyeminstudio #teardrophouse #traceyemin #afortniteoftears #process #product #honouryourprocess #journey #selflove #selfcare #blog #london #thoughts #art https://www.instagram.com/p/CAiQk76HBlB/?igshid=1kxwvo2vr6cn9