Musings – Edward Ficklin

The office, but not THAT office

close up of little statuettes of laughing buddhas and a meditating frog perched beside a laptop on a desk

Today I make one thing. I may make something different tomorrow. I close down by hitting a kind of reset button on the office, restoring it to a ready state–ready for tomorrow’s adventure.

Workshopping Reality

an empty wooden chair in a spotlight on an empty stage

Everything that’s not burning hot like that hothouse, not pushing and pulling to reshape us into our most glorious selves, not utterly committed and vulnerable, is the mistake, the fake, the loss, the near miss.

Move Better, Draw Better

Expanding my routines freed up my thinking about health and physique, freed up my body and, believe it or not, freed up my art, too.

Exclusively Queer?

When you start to engage with the cishet power brokers and gatekeepers, pundits and pontificators, you’ll often get the well-intentioned advice to straighten it up or go nowhere.

Thicc of Heart

Man pulling up gray hoodie to reveal fabulously chiseled abs

How did we come to a place where physique is the realm of toxic masculinity?

The most important part of the book is—

I would never be offended to hear “I bought your book for the cover.”

Physical Resonances

What makes a guy doable? Simple, intensity.

Thoughts on Queer Representation

Just like process over product, think creator over creation.

Returnings of the year

Life outside the studio may be on hold, but the art-making continues. I’m grateful for the manifold privileges of health, safety, and security that allow this. The last year held challenges for all of us, but it would be the height of ignorance and arrogance for me to complain without at least some acknowledgement ofContinue reading “Returnings of the year”