Sunday, June 26, 2005
Enforced Creativity
Task: make something given a limited set of supplies (chosen by someone else) and a budget of $7.
Enforced creativity works very well for me (eg the spring roll song). Constraints are much better than unlimited freedom when it comes to creating original things. When I have unlimited freedom I either get stuck on the option analysis and decision making or I recreate something I have done before.
So a few hours after being given the task I got a mental picture of what I wanted to create. What I ended up making isn't quite like my mental picture (it never is!), but I am happy with it. It is something I would wear.
I tend to make simple jewellery so I have lots of beads and $ left over. Here are the left overs:
The (almost) finished product:
A close up of the (almost) finished product:
Me trying to photograph myself wearing the almost finished product:
A difficult thing to do seeing as the necklace doesn't have a clasp yet and my camera battery kept dying.
Enforced creativity works very well for me (eg the spring roll song). Constraints are much better than unlimited freedom when it comes to creating original things. When I have unlimited freedom I either get stuck on the option analysis and decision making or I recreate something I have done before.
So a few hours after being given the task I got a mental picture of what I wanted to create. What I ended up making isn't quite like my mental picture (it never is!), but I am happy with it. It is something I would wear.
I tend to make simple jewellery so I have lots of beads and $ left over. Here are the left overs:
The (almost) finished product:
A close up of the (almost) finished product:
Me trying to photograph myself wearing the almost finished product:
A difficult thing to do seeing as the necklace doesn't have a clasp yet and my camera battery kept dying.
// posted by suze @ 10:06 AM 
