Thursday, 10 July 2014

tomorrow's inspiration

The last Wild Art Journaling of the season tomorrow.  Or the term, maybe.  Summer Holiday starts after that.  And I guess I really would like for it to somehow continue even though it won't be at the wonderful No 45 until the autumn term begins.

I am sitting in my work room.  Wondering what we can do.  I think I have it.  I think its going to be called

The Unseen Life Dreaming Me

Which is is a line lifted from Mondo Beyondo

Its going to be a little bit Mondo Beyondo.  I want to increase their range, get them 'leaning into the whimsy of it'. 

I also watched this Ted talk from Korea.  Be an artist now.  I like how he gets his students to write really really fast.  So that they can escape the 'devils' that stop them being creative.  I like that he calls them devils. 

Escaping the gremlins. 

And I want them to create a dreamscape.  Which is kind of like a landscape but with more scope. 

I am working on little acts of randomness that will loosen up their intentions and get them working with what is and what might be. 

I think I am nearly there with my plan.  Its not so much teaching as nudging.  Pushing people up the edge of the diving board and gently easing them off the edge of it into their own pool of creative play. 

I am really excited too because we have a new mix of people coming.  And I kind of have the feeling they are going to leap right off and swim right into the deep end. 

Or it could all go horribly wrong.  But I kind of like the risk.

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