OGT DAILY Day Ninety Seven PRESSURE

There is nothing like a hard line to motivate.  Tomorrow is Open Studio day.

All the fuffutsing around is over.  It's show time!   Sometimes I function better under such conditions. Call it traumatic conditioning. Call it procrastination, but as with word limits I do better sometimes with those finite bits of creative time rather than in large free form blocks or days of unstructured time. More often than not I find myself spacing out, reading Facebook, reading and daydreaming - all important aspects of the creative process, but it's amazing to me how I will suddenly get wrapped up in a project when I know I only have about twenty minutes to work.   Maybe because its finite. Maybe it becomes like a sprint with a short burst of concentrated energy.

I think of the Toots and the Maytal's tune Pressure Drop.  It was a favorite song for me in high school from The Harder They Come album from Jimmy Cliff, but it seems to fit this sort of pressure we apply to ourselves, as well as pressure imposed by our culture.

Hmm hmm hmm, yeah [x3]

It is you (oh yeah)
It is you, you (oh yeah)
It is you (oh yeah)

Cause a pressure drop, oh pressure
Oh yeah pressure drop a drop on you
I say a pressure drop, oh pressure
Oh yeah pressure drop a drop on you

I say when it drops, oh you gonna, feel it
Know that you were doing wrong
I say when it drops, oh you gonna, feel it
Know that you were doing wrong

Hmm hmm hmm, yeah [x3]

I say a pressure drop, oh pressure
Oh yeah, pressure drop a drop on you
I say a pressure drop, oh pressure
Oh yeah, pressure drop a drop on you

It is you (oh yeah)
It is you, you (oh yeah)
It is you (oh yeah)

I say a pressure drop, oh pressure
Oh yeah, pressure drop a drop on you

My brother-in-law Tom made a sculpture that I have on my dresser by the same name:

Pressure Drop by Tom O'Flynn