Hello, Artists! It’s Day 30 of #The100DayProject! “The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is — it’s to imagine what is possible.” — bell hooks What’s possible through your art or creative work? How are you imagining something new (vs. telling it “like it is”)?
I use my imagination quite a bit as I’m an intuitive artist. I usually start to create before I know what it will be. Currently I am using gelli print papers I made and then looking at them to see what shows up for me in them. Perhaps a face. Sometimes just a flow. A journey.
I recently read an article called "Taking a bite: the haiku McMoment" which distinguishes between describing what is right in front of you, in the present moment, and drawing on memory, your own and even ancestral, to evoke the feeling in the haiku. I think I do a little of both: often I "telling it like it is" but I always strive to what Allen Ginsberg refers to as "making that leap" to something beyond, something more profound. So what's possible is not just my story through the haiku, but perhaps a story that everyone can relate to on some level.
I use my imagination quite a bit as I’m an intuitive artist. I usually start to create before I know what it will be. Currently I am using gelli print papers I made and then looking at them to see what shows up for me in them. Perhaps a face. Sometimes just a flow. A journey.
I recently read an article called "Taking a bite: the haiku McMoment" which distinguishes between describing what is right in front of you, in the present moment, and drawing on memory, your own and even ancestral, to evoke the feeling in the haiku. I think I do a little of both: often I "telling it like it is" but I always strive to what Allen Ginsberg refers to as "making that leap" to something beyond, something more profound. So what's possible is not just my story through the haiku, but perhaps a story that everyone can relate to on some level.