Are you struggling with procrastination? This should help

Lulu in Emeka’s New York home studio

Lulu

Do you have any tricks to deal with procrastination?

Artist Chukwuemeka Chukwu

Uh, I think…the thing is, one, as an artist these days, you are not really doing just art. You're managing your life, You're constantly like sending emails or pushing your work, making PDFs or applying to residencies or talking to people or going to shows. You're just always doing something revolving that might not be necessarily making the work.
So it's very easy to procrastinate.

But when it comes to making the work, I don't really procrastinate when I have like an idea of when a show is going to happen.
If I don't have an idea what I'm doing with making work, it’s easy to procrastinate because you don't have an idea of where the finishing line is. Even if it's like a mental finishing line, like if I know that there's going to be a show coming up, I would like to have like an idea of what kind of show that's going to be like or what kind of body of work I want to make.

But first depicting yourself in what you are going to end up in, I think is important