Thought 11 - Milton Lim October 31st

Phone rings twice then voicemail recording "you've reached 647-280-66(static)leave a message after the tone (beep) Hi, David this is Milton Lim and this is my tenth thought residency going out to the consumers and to the future. Hi David Yee, this is Milton Lim this is my eleventh and final thought dedicated to the incomplete. I hope that the opening for your show at the Factory went smoothly, I wish I could've been there to support you in person. Today, I've been thinking about the preciousness of showing work. I've been following this artist called 'Beeple' for a couple years. His real name is Mike Winkleman and he's a graphic designer from Wisconsin. He's fairly well known for what he called his 'everydays' — basically, he publicly posts a work he has been completing from start to finish every day. It serves as a way for him to better his practice and to remove any inhibitions about sharing his pieces no matter how shitty he thinks it is. It's a process he's done for 3,472 consecutive days at the time of this recording and scrolling through his works, you really do see the improvement. Now, one of the things that I appreciate about your show "acquiesce" is that it's one of your earliest works, and that it was lost behind a filing cabinet for almost a decade. And I know it took some convincing to get you to say yes to having it produced. I think it takes courage to share something you know you wrote when you were younger, more naïve and less experienced. More than that, it reminds me that things are almost always incomplete, that each project is just part of the practice, and that sometimes it's best to share things before it's ready because otherwise, you might never ever share it. I even consider that mentorship is a process of transmitting the incomplete. I think there's a lot to see in the raw ideas. Perhaps more than the finished products.