I put it off as long as I could, but it’s day #4 of the Procrastination series and of my journey to Blog World NY to talk about it.

Dying and the Worst Fear

When I think about dying my worst fear is that all the artwork I have done over the decades will be lost. That it will be so disorganized, so hard to find and sort through, that no one will want to do it and it will just disappear eventually.  I have a lot of things I want to get done still, but I have done a lot of things so far and I want them recorded and stored in a way that others can see or hear about them later.

Technology

I have to leave things undone each day, and many days I leave them undone on purpose because I don’t feel like working so hard at it.  But in the end I keep coming back to my tasks, both the current art creation tasks and the cataloging and organizing of my prior work. It’s not as if it’s going to end since as soon as I get everything organized on CD or DVD another technology comes along that demands it be done all over again.  For example, I have been going through old family photos this past Memorial Day weekend and I came across a floppy disk full of images. That was modern and safe at one point but now it’s ancient technology I can’t access without spending money on it. 

What is your greatest fear in dying and do you put off dealing with it? Why so?

_____________________

Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman, whose many scribbles are unaccounted for.

Quote by Pablo Picasso, whose every scribble is pretty much accounted for.

_____________________