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![]() Me with my sunglasses on. This is probably the best picture of me! My daughter drew it when she was four. She draws quite differently now. I'm taking a class in which we are making altered books and after learning how to prepare the pages and getting about 1001 suggestions I have no idea what I want to do! I glued this fabulous picture of myself into the book but so far the only thing I like about the book is this picture. I'm definitely stuck. This must be like writer's block only with pictures. It's not that I don't have any ideas, I have too many! But none are quite right. I'm paralyzed by indecision. Any suggestions? Hopefully I’ll get “unstuck” soon and I’ll post pictures. ![]() Here's the picture I call, Little Garden 4. I already have Little Gardens 1, 2 and 3 and so you may wonder if I've gotten really lazy about naming my pictures. Well, yes and no. It is hard to think up names for abstract pieces. I suppose I could really call it anything... Aliens from the Blue... Traffic Jam at Dusk...Flowerhead. I'm sure you can think of some better ones! The real reason I called it Little Garden 4 is because of a sketch in my notebook that I randomly doodled and thought of as a "little garden". I've come to value these little doodles because they're somewhat unconcscious. Malcolm Gladwell, in the best seller, Blink, called it "the mind behind the locked door". Our conscious brains can't stand that there's so much back there that they can't control! I like to try and peek through the key hole. I know that's where all my most creative ideas are. Have you ever sat in front of a blank sheet of white paper and consciously tried to decide what to draw? I find that my conscious brain goes as blank as the page. That is why, when I do a little doodle, I take it seriously. I even make a whole series out of it! |
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