Be guided by the materials we have to hand, using our intellect and hearts to decide which materials suit our needs best, what we enjoy using and doing, and what is suitable for embodying our ideas. Look around your immediate environment to see what is there.
The kitchen cupboards can reveal exciting textures, shapes or products with graphics and colours on for instance, reflecting societies fashions and needs on the packaging. Also the bin is a good source for recycling rubbish into papier maché, sculpture, assemblage, collage or montage.
Domestic technology in use for home entertainment can be turned around from its original use and looked at differently, a t.v. and dvd player can be used to present your photos or films, camcorders can be used to create feed back effects, (by filming the screen it´s playing on) or to capture audio from a noise that interests you. Simply used, in other ways from their primary intention, these machines can record things like poetry, or a strange light play when the sun hits a glass at a certain angle. Don´t worry about anything in our early sketches, because it´s the content and technique thats important, to communicate our ideas.
Materials can be a starting point, if they stare back at you begging to be placed next to each other for a painting or photograph, obey them, just to see! If we choose to listen to them closely the materials themselves can actually guide us where and what they want to be, like when we get the feel or the knack of using them, e.g. when choosing rocks to build a dry stone wall, or film clips to edit a sequence together. You can actually hear things go ping and become seamless when they find their right place. Listen to your intuition and act upon it, in the energy of the moment.
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