05/05/2023
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Failure - Wes Alfermann
I failed this week.
Throughout my entire life I have been taught to do the right thing. Be nice, be patient, be respectful, be good at school, work hard and success will follow. But what happens if I am not living up to all these expectations? Growing up, I thought that it was the ultimate letdown. To be less than excellent was not acceptable.
Pan now to adult me trying to do adult things and and pursue a business based in art with a fluid metric for what is right and wrong. In a sense, art is just that, a balance of perfect and imperfect, a perfect dance between structure and chaos.
My ingrained engineering brain says there is only one way to do it, while my creative and more emotional side is saying ‘Let me FREE!”
My internal storm has my emotional waves crashing around inside of me pushing and pulling my inner self back and forth.
This storm has been going on for some years now, and I’m now finally learning how to turn the tides and to settle the wind and waves within me.
So even though I wasn’t able to create a usable piece of my first kinetic art sculpture this week- at LEAST I failed!
I tried.
I pursued.
I leapt.
I dove in.
I moved.
I’ve been locked into immobility for so long in regards to letting my creative emotional side out. And now I am growing into a more aware and stronger version of myself.
I hope this post has resonated with some of you to the impact new growth can have.
I look forward to continuing to share my failures and successes with you as I continue on my journey.