If it's not affecting the people who were following me or interested or collect my work,

it feels like a threat when you discover it, but is it really?

Hi and welcome to episode 260 of art juice this is honest

generous and humorous conversations to feed your creative soul and get you

thinking with me Louise Fletcher and me Alice Sheridan and this week we're going to talk about

We're going to talk around a topic and it might not be the last time we address this topic, we might come back to it, but around the topic of copying, inspiration, plagiarism, where is the boundary, where do we both draw lines where might we cross lines without realizing and this is a

question that I think we both get asked from time to time by different people who are not sure that what they're doing is okay, so we thought it might be a good topic.

But before we get into that, what have you been up to, Alice?

I have been procrasto painting.

I like that word.

I have moved past procrasto cleaning.

And I am into the into the Procrasta painting as opposed to painting.

Right, Procrasta painting is when you've actually cracked open the paints but you're doing things that you're telling yourself

which is important and productive like doing colour swatches because that's part of preparation right or what I have been doing is

Painting or adjusting old paintings just to get back into the swing of it. And I'm calling it

procrast the painting rather than part of the process in a rather kind of

denigrating way because I do think it is part of the process. It's part of getting settled into it.

And I think it's a very natural thing when you're starting something new and in this case something that

feels quite important so I'm doing work for a show that's going to be in a gallery and

so it feels different from just working on my own work like I normally do for an

event or something else that I'm getting my own work for.

There feels a level of, um,

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