It's been much too long since we have posted or replied. I've got to find a way to kickstart these discussions.
Here's one for consideration:
How much does your subconsciousness play a role in what you create? Do you remember your dreams, daytime or nighttime? Does an interpretation of what you have seen in your mind work it's way into your art? I'm not talking about the technical side, i.e. planning or "sketching" in your mind or actively thinking about materials or techniques. What I'm asking about are things like symbolism, or narratives, or "dreams" that a psychic would have a field-day with. Things that if you told someone about, they might suggest you go to therapy. I use references often that I have not actively thought about during waking hours. I also think about ideas that I have absolutely no clue where they came from. I can only guess that my mind works on a different creative level sometimes. Meanings in my work are sometimes unfamiliar to me. Sometimes I am clueless about where an idea or link among elements within a work has come from. Sometimes even, a viewer can point something out which then seems obvious to me but which I was blind to before. Sometimes this is good, sometimes bad. If I can trace the origin of an idea back to the start, it's way cool. But sometimes that is not possible for me to do. I take great pride in being able to effectively create a vignette or to tell a short story with a work. I don't know if these things come to me in broken pieces from bits held tightly in my head or if I actively "make-up" the story as I go. I definitely think that my own subconsciousness plays a big part in what I do. Admitting this, I hope, will not be detrimental to the perception of me as a person nor an artist. I'm just trying to find out where things come from. Of course I don't always do this, this day and night dreaming. I rarely even remember my dreams. But I think that somehow, ideas are remembered and trapped and then percolate to be reborn as my art. Does anyone else have any ideas about this? I'm hanging by a thread on this one....
rbs
Here's one for consideration:
How much does your subconsciousness play a role in what you create? Do you remember your dreams, daytime or nighttime? Does an interpretation of what you have seen in your mind work it's way into your art? I'm not talking about the technical side, i.e. planning or "sketching" in your mind or actively thinking about materials or techniques. What I'm asking about are things like symbolism, or narratives, or "dreams" that a psychic would have a field-day with. Things that if you told someone about, they might suggest you go to therapy. I use references often that I have not actively thought about during waking hours. I also think about ideas that I have absolutely no clue where they came from. I can only guess that my mind works on a different creative level sometimes. Meanings in my work are sometimes unfamiliar to me. Sometimes I am clueless about where an idea or link among elements within a work has come from. Sometimes even, a viewer can point something out which then seems obvious to me but which I was blind to before. Sometimes this is good, sometimes bad. If I can trace the origin of an idea back to the start, it's way cool. But sometimes that is not possible for me to do. I take great pride in being able to effectively create a vignette or to tell a short story with a work. I don't know if these things come to me in broken pieces from bits held tightly in my head or if I actively "make-up" the story as I go. I definitely think that my own subconsciousness plays a big part in what I do. Admitting this, I hope, will not be detrimental to the perception of me as a person nor an artist. I'm just trying to find out where things come from. Of course I don't always do this, this day and night dreaming. I rarely even remember my dreams. But I think that somehow, ideas are remembered and trapped and then percolate to be reborn as my art. Does anyone else have any ideas about this? I'm hanging by a thread on this one....
rbs