get yourself a piece of paper and something to make a mark on that paper.
place the paper down on a flat firm surface.
draw a four sided shape.
place the mark making item next to the shape.
look at your shape.
- get yourself a piece of paper and something to make a mark on that paper.
- place the paper down on a flat firm surface.
- draw a shape.
- place the mark making item next to the shape.
- look at your shape.
- get yourself a piece of paper and something to make a mark on that paper.
- place the paper down on a flat firm surface.
- draw a shape.
- place the mark making item next to the shape.
- look at your shape.
the shape represents the creative space i have to work in currently. where i’m working is bound by co-production and i use the word bound carefully because all of those involved in that process have an influence on the shape – it’ll be interesting to compare all the shapes when next we meet to co produce.
this week has seen a co production meeting where i’ve shared the first prototype in the first prototype hardware. the hardware choices are constrained by budget. budget is king – both for hardware and software production.
i’m gently working up to share and reflect about the co production meeting from a personal and honest perspective.
attending the arts and heritage group meetings either as a participant or as an artist is always an enlightening and deeply challenging experience. look at your shape on the page for a moment … this week the co production aspect of the meeting has left me asking fundamental questions … like am i working on the whole page or within the bounds of the drawn shape.
i ask that question here as the other evening there was reiteration of questions that are fundamental to the work i’m making. for those of you external to this process that might sound harsh, far from it. the process of human centred design / co-pro sets a safe space in which to operate – so those taking part aren’t threatened and are posed difficult challenging questions with the intention to test out the basis of the idea.
for my part as the artist making the work that was under scrutiny the space was safe and hearing the questions was ok.
what happens outside the meeting is now what i’ll share.
firstly i’ll share that i have had to reach a decision about how i share with you about my processing of all the iterations of ideas and positions of the shared prototype.
the day after i took to sharing the very personal reflections with a member of the group – this has cleared enough energy for me to further reflect about it here.
i glance at the shape i drew a few minutes ago. it is symbolic of what i went through yesterday – needing to apply myself to get myself back into a space where i knew where i am.
in drawing the shape a fresh i have included different ideas within it. yes, the meeting the other evening posed some many questions that i have had to dig deep to find the answers within me.
the ideas behind what is driving what i am doing have evolved. the user interface will evolve, the way i work on site will evolve – has evolved.
take your mark making item and go over the lines of the shape you drew.
looks stronger ?
feels stronger ?
after some rest, i’ll be back into practice
and application of what i have learnt.
