issue 4. 2020 | golf digest 99keeping watch▶There is an army of
security personnel
(below) making sure
that everything goes
according to the
rules. (Not that the
spectators seem eager
to break any of them.)home by focusing on avoiding
mistakes. And that, of course,
is wrong. I need to go full
risk until the end. This is
terribly hard. But—just as in
sports—the easy thing about
the hard things is that they
can be tackled with practice.
I regularly take time in my
studio to ruin drawings.
I work with ambition, but
the purpose of this exercise
is to confidently drive the
drawing into a concrete wall at
full speed. This actually works.
It has decreased my fear of
making mistakes. Often it’s
exactly one of those mistakes
that creates an interesting
twist. And in some rare cases,
I can add another mad move
that ties everything together as
if it were all part of a deliberate
master plan from the get-go.
This is actually all pretty
stressful, but if I’m lucky, the
results are fun to watch.
Kind of like the Masters.christoph niemann is an artist,
author and animator. In addition
to Golf Digest, his work appears
regularly in The New Yorker,
National Geographic and
The New York Times Magazine.
In 2010, he was inducted into
the Art Directors Club Hall Of Fame.