i use a similar process whenever i start a new artwork, perhaps not quite boredom but certainly mental emptiness. then let ideas come and go, without judging any too much and eventually one resonates much more than the others. Although i often find the writing part hard, as i find it often breaks the emptiness (but perhaps i am just thinking about the words too much)
I'm so glad you offered your perspective as a visual artist. I was actually wondering about this as I was writing this post: is step 4 different, depending on your art form? For me, as a writer, step 4 is writing. For you, as a visual artist, it seems that step 4 is letting visual ideas pass through your consciousness. Can you say more about this? What are the ideas? Am I correct to assume they are visual? Do you do something like sketching to keep track of them? Or do you just keep them in your head until you pick one that you want to work on?
but then there’s a second archetype of idea which is more like the technical side of my medium. so after i kind of feel some very resonant concept, i will then move on to sitting with that concept in my mind, and letting ideas come and go that relate to literally how to create the thing i can feel (what code to write, what buttons to click, what colors to use, etc)
sometimes as i do this, i realize the first high level impression was not as pure as i thought, and allow the idea to change its form as needed until it both feels right AND i have a clear technical path to creation
It seems like there's a progression from abstract to more technical. The idea starts out as vague and ill-defined, then progresses through stages of increasing clarity and materialization until it becomes the actual work of art in the material world.
yeah that’s accurate for sure. i think that is the process of art though. compressing some super textured high dimensional idea down to the number of dimensions that exists in your chosen medium, without losing the essence
Well said. Have you thought about writing some art essays? Especially as you're getting deeper into your new media art, I imagine you're having lots of thoughts on form, craft, etc. I'd be interested to read those thoughts.
the closest thing i can compare it too is a lucid dream, where you have some control but not total control over how you traverse some abstract concept - space. they aren’t quite visual ideas so much as impressions that cascade over, and some feel more resonant than others. i can’t give a good example with words (if i could, presumably i would not have to make the art)
i use a similar process whenever i start a new artwork, perhaps not quite boredom but certainly mental emptiness. then let ideas come and go, without judging any too much and eventually one resonates much more than the others. Although i often find the writing part hard, as i find it often breaks the emptiness (but perhaps i am just thinking about the words too much)
I'm so glad you offered your perspective as a visual artist. I was actually wondering about this as I was writing this post: is step 4 different, depending on your art form? For me, as a writer, step 4 is writing. For you, as a visual artist, it seems that step 4 is letting visual ideas pass through your consciousness. Can you say more about this? What are the ideas? Am I correct to assume they are visual? Do you do something like sketching to keep track of them? Or do you just keep them in your head until you pick one that you want to work on?
but then there’s a second archetype of idea which is more like the technical side of my medium. so after i kind of feel some very resonant concept, i will then move on to sitting with that concept in my mind, and letting ideas come and go that relate to literally how to create the thing i can feel (what code to write, what buttons to click, what colors to use, etc)
sometimes as i do this, i realize the first high level impression was not as pure as i thought, and allow the idea to change its form as needed until it both feels right AND i have a clear technical path to creation
It seems like there's a progression from abstract to more technical. The idea starts out as vague and ill-defined, then progresses through stages of increasing clarity and materialization until it becomes the actual work of art in the material world.
yeah that’s accurate for sure. i think that is the process of art though. compressing some super textured high dimensional idea down to the number of dimensions that exists in your chosen medium, without losing the essence
Well said. Have you thought about writing some art essays? Especially as you're getting deeper into your new media art, I imagine you're having lots of thoughts on form, craft, etc. I'd be interested to read those thoughts.
the closest thing i can compare it too is a lucid dream, where you have some control but not total control over how you traverse some abstract concept - space. they aren’t quite visual ideas so much as impressions that cascade over, and some feel more resonant than others. i can’t give a good example with words (if i could, presumably i would not have to make the art)