The best version of an artwork isn’t always the one you planned.
In this final clip from papercut artist Andrew Benincasa’s process lecture, he describes how many of his strongest works evolve toward the end. Not because his original plan failed, but because making art is often intuitive.
You have to feel the work with your body and respond to what’s actually happening on the canvas.
When has a work in progress surprised you?
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Our visiting artist in residence this quarter, Andrew Benincasa, describes his papercutting process as one of constant revision: erasing, changing, stepping back, and returning to the work with fresh eyes. He's not only trying to get each part to look right. He's watching how each part changes the feeling of the whole artwork.
That's the real work of composition, and it's because of his attention to relationship and balance that's he erases so much throughout the process.
How much are you erasing in your art practice? And how often do you step back from a work in progress to see what the whole is doing?
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Why drip?
Because at some point, if you’ve been criticising something hard enough and long enough —
you owe it the respect of trying it.
There’s something honest about that. Instead of standing outside and throwing opinions at a
technique, you step into it. You test it. You struggle with it. You see what it actually demands.
Only then are you in a position to critique it with integrity.
Adapting. Rolling with it. Challenging your own bias.
What happens when an artist deliberately leans into something they’ve resisted? What shifts?
What breaks? What evolves?
This part of the conversation explores experimentation, humility in practice, and the courage to
confront your own creative prejudice — by making the very thing you once dismissed.
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Unscrew the turps bottle. Let the studio stink. Make a mess.
That’s the reality of painting — not the polished Instagram version, but the obsessive,
all-consuming push and pull between control and surrender. You can lose yourself in it for hours
when it’s working. And when it’s not? You can’t escape it.
Even when you step away, you don’t
really step away.
You turn off the lights.
You walk out.
You come back.
“Hang on… the eyebrows are wrong.
”
That moment — repeated 20 times a day — says everything about the psychology of making.
The tension between instinct and critique. Between flow state and doubt. Between freedom and
responsibility to the work.
This interview dives into that inner battle artists live with daily — the obsession, the
second-guessing, and the relentless pursuit of getting it right.
Who else here is like this everytime they paint? Comment below my fellow artist.
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