Thinking time

Quiet reflective thinking time is an absolute requirement for those who practice a rigorous questioning creative process. Emptying the environment of noise is half the battle, no voices, no audio, no noiseless visual distractions, just sitting down journeying within oneself trying to find the question. It is easy to be creative, even inspired by, harder to know just what to do with it!

There is no strategy as to the artwork I have retained within my archive. Piles of papers containing collages, drawings, notes, paintings, a variety of creative thoughts with no specific objective. Regularly I appraise these papers gradually disposing of a few items at a time.They are not retained as artifacts evidencing interactions with other archive collections - they are my historical thoughts in a visual form.

This specific collage is an abstraction of the University of Leicester student coffee boycott c1960s. The marks were created cutting out paper pieces. Creating an odd composition that still acknowledges the photographic print source, one item representing one story, from one institution. I have hundreds of single item art pieces, lacking creative purpose consistency and subject theme. My goal is to enhance my network, reputation, make this website relevant / interesting resource.

Right now I have only a vague structure & rules concerning a new project:

A) Create single items based upon photographic records made available online, by an institutional archive.

B) Migrate descriptive metadata onto website.

C) Follow a specific subject theme (such as artists, coffee, protests etc…)

D) All art created to be sketched based (with a selection of ideas to be further enhanced).

E) To interact with all Institutions / archivists as per activity with their collections.

To summarize; as from today a new project HAS started, only I am now tripping up entirely on what the projects name should be. Any suggestions please get in touch!!!