ART MAKING: embracing risk, the unexpected and seeing what happens

I was reading about the American abstract artist Helen Frankenthaler and came across this quote about her which I thought was brilliant.
"During a 60-year career, Frankenthaler, who died in 2011, never lost her appetite for risk. She sought out and delighted in the “productive clumsiness”, as she called it, that is inherent in learning anything new, admitting that she would “rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do”.
Quote from The Telegraph, 5 September 2021 article written by Lucy Davies on Helen Frankenthaler
This quote resonated with me, it contains some lovely pearls of wisdom which came as a useful reminder:
→To embrace risk in our art making
→That learning comes with inherent clumsiness
→Ugly surprises are a worthwhile end result
→The way though the clumsiness is in the doing, the more we make the less clumsy we become
→Evolving and growing in our art practice relies on us trying things we haven’t tried before and seeing what happens
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