Hello Everyone,
I recently enjoyed this youtube TED Talk by Paula Scher ( click on the link at the top of the page). The title, " Great Design is Serious (not Solemn)."
It's a little long (22 minutes) but the issue of challenging yourself to learn new materials or techniques as a way of funding your imagination is thoughly explored. She also discusses the downside of developing a style by which you are known, only to become stuck by its repetition and the excitement disappears. Ms. Scher points out that when an artist moves into unchartered visual territory, an "on the fly" learning takes place.
This is fun. I think this playfulness is comunnicated to an audience then creating additional excitement. This is why I have a studio filled with "experiments".
Here are couple of those images from my lab, more fabric covered wire baskets.
Flotsam
Churning forgotten bits,
transform into lovely islands.
Archaic refuse revealed,
inviting us to remember
childhood's muses.
Time holds no compassion
for the real or the faux.
Our reverent footsteps
returned to the mecurial winds.
The mind's silence bid the ocean
peace.
Here is an update on my forest in a box. Maybe it needs a poem.
The last bit is a link to a favorite visual magazine which I hope will have lots of inspirational ideas.
www.thisiscolossal.com
Sincerely,
Sarah K. Feragen
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