3B: Seven Weeks at Sea

Visit post 3A, where I describe how I’ll soon make drawings over the yellow number 7 I discovered during creative exploration. The 7 is made of thread (yarn) haphazardly placed on a carpeted wall. I “found” the number 7 shape and fleshed out the observation. I wondered what the 7 could mean. To find out […]

Next Levels

Here is where more will happen. JDF

A Place To Create: Sitting “Levels”

Note the audio-video plus visual arts possibilities. I keep these at my fingertips intentionally. There is a sensory reduction space in the left corner, behind the curtain. I have a wall where I put up 8 images sometimes to compare and contrast and let my mind wander. There is a collage of ideas on this […]

2A: I’m gonna turn’t into sump’n else

Documentation

TTT CHAPTER 1: THE INNER IMAGES

CHAPTER 1 Inspiration would just strike me. I’d wrestle with the inner images and turn those insights into a terrible first draft. Then, later, I would iterate it. Or, sometimes, the first draft would be decent. Then, I would wade to the edges of my idea, building upon it right away. What would come next […]

Our Environments Make A Difference For Creativity

Our environments matter in terms of their creativity-affording potential. I am currently organizing sticky notes. I have time and space and materials to create. I am in solitude and I have a multi-sensory environment with “levels” of engagement. What do I mean by levels? I mean that I can engage with ideas on: (1) a […]

1B: Dragon and Dove

This drawing was inspired by a photo (1A), and it led to a little story (1C).

1A: I’m Going To Turn This Into Something Else

I don’t yet know what it will be. Hmm…1B

Introduction: Play/Wonder

Hi, I’m JD Faulk. I believe that we have a day-to-day creativity that goes largely unrecognized within ourselves. We see shapes in the clouds and finish each others sentences. We make meals from leftovers. We are pattern-seekers and we fill in the unknown with our “what-if?” minds. I see creative expression and adaptation as essentially […]