Art, Creativity, Coaching
Visit any artist s studio and you will probably find, somewhere, perhaps beside a desk in a corner or to one side of a painting that s being worked on, a small collection of images, and maybe a quote, taped or pinned to the wall. If you knew me back in the early 1990s these are some [ ]
Moonlit.exposed reminded me of the article My Website is a Shifting House, which got me thinking of my writing on mind gardens and Lynda Barry s notion of the composition book as place. And in case you were wondering, Fish in a Bag is a little experiment that may turn into something more substantial. Get Fish-in-a-Bag [ ]
Today s inspiration/provocation: Lucas Blalock
Noticing I ve been taking photos, quite unintentionally, of circular things. And this morning, a starfish.
What follows is a shitty first draft (SFD). It s a lightly edited piece of free writing. And being an SFD it doesn t always make sense or follow a coherent argument. It s a record of thoughts as they came to me. It s a seed or note for a possible future piece of writing. I recently suggested [ ]
I came across the first part of Sol LeWitt’s letter to Eva Hesse while doing my Fine Arts degree in the early 90s. I photocopied it and taped it to the wall. I even drew it out on a gessoed mdf panel. It s written by someone who understands the creative process and is a powerful [ ]
If you avoid everything you can avoid, then you do what you can’t avoid,and you do what is helpless and unavoidable.— Jasper Johns on being an artist. This quote has been on my mind. I came across it via an article by Jerry Saltz about the painter Philip Guston. He (Jerry) was focussing on Guston’s [ ]
The other week I used an AI chat-bot thing to review and tighten some short form content I d written. It left me feeling icky. Yes, there were some positives: And some negatives I noticed: The negatives felt much greater than the positives and while my writing was in a better place than where it started [ ]
Borrowing a phrase from the musician John Roderick, did you know you can try on different jackets as thought technologies? I don t know about you, but I really struggle writing about myself. I m backwards in coming forwards which might be a British thing. It s definitely a kiwi-thing due, perhaps, to tall poppy syndrome. Even [ ]
What? Buy some pens?Here s why stationery shopping can refresh your brain Changing the tool you use changes the way you think. So if you re rehashing the same tired ideas and everything s turned beige, use a different tool. Thinking in the same old medium and gets the same old ideas. As an artist I know changing [ ]