THE PROCESS
- Collecting: Gathering interesting ideas
- Connecting: Drawing connections and organizing materials
- Creating: Producing something new
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
"I had so many ideas that I simply wanted to take them out of my head and see them before me.
After that, I could see how they connected with one another and started developing an argument for my article.
I was begging for a space that could give me freedom when I needed to brainstorm and enough structure to turn those ideas into my final artefact.
Daguerreotypes - Agnes Varda
“What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, their own way of fracturing reality, and then if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings”
— David Foster Wallace
An exercise I would guide my younger creative self through:
1. Make a list of your favorite works
2. List out everything bad, janky, poorly done etc about them
3. Notice how this does not diminish your love for the works
4. realize th... See more
Visakan Veerasamyx.comThough artists generally aren’t aware of it, that end work is a by-product of a greater desire. We aren’t creating to produce or sell material products. The act of creation is an attempt to enter a mysterious realm. A longing to transcend. What we create allows us to share glimpses of an inner landscape, one that is beyond our understanding. Art is
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