Sometimes I Just Rotate the Work and Call It Progress

Sometimes I just rotate the work and call it progress. A lot of my work can be seen from more than one angle, which is convenient when I am stuck. If I turn it upside down and it still works, that feels like an achievement. If it works better, I pretend that was the plan all along.

Occasionally I see my work hung the wrong way up and I do not rush to correct it. It makes about the same amount of sense either way.

Rotation is useful because it creates the illusion of movement without requiring any real decisions. Nothing new is added. Nothing is removed. The work just gets to exist differently for a moment. Sometimes that is enough to make me see it again. Sometimes it changes nothing and I rotate it back. Both outcomes count as time spent working.

I like that other people see it differently too.

Different orientations. Different interpretations.

Different levels of certainty.

It feels fair. If the work is confusing, at least it is consistent. If you want to see pieces that have survived being turned around multiple times, they are elsewhere on this site.

Some of them are currently the right way up. Probably.