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I recently went to a workshop by an collective called simka. we took a 45 minute walk in complete silence and then had to draw or write about our walking experience. people drew some really cool stuff and wrote beautifully. since then, whenever I take a walk I make a note in my notes app of how I felt or what I thought about during the walk. or I draw. the other day I drew a tree I saw while walking. during the workshop I wrote about primordial forms and drew the patterns I saw in the ground. I already love drawing, so doing this really makes my day.
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This is a work of art that tries to describe the essence of another work of art. But what it has become for me is art in response to art. I take a photo or find an image and let it inspire a written work. Sometimes this is reversed.
Scroll through your camera roll and write something inspired by a photo, fiction or non-fiction. Go to the museum, the art gallery, look through a magazine, coffee table book, watch a movie, or people and write something that's inspired by something else.
Mar 19, 2024
I think theres something really great about not only seeing the same people every few weeks, getting to know the organiser (and her dachshund), and participating in ongoing community, but also life drawing in general. It’s stretching a muscle in your eye to brain to hand coordination, its looking for looking. Seeing people who look so many different ways and feel comfortable enough to strip off in front of a group of strangers and have those strangers look so intensely at them for close to two hour. Also getting a glass of cheap wine there doesn’t hurt.
Jan 23, 2024
go 2 a state park near you and just document (photograph, sketch, etc) interesting textures that you come across. moss is an easy one. think of it as the visual equivalent to field recordings. start appreciating minor details 🤓👍
Jan 25, 2024
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I‘m wondering why we stopped having blogs and writing essays? I want to hear people’s thoughts. I want to share my thoughts! and I don’t want to see these thoughts in a few sentences on twitter or a short Instagram post. I need a 1000+ word essay with images, links, references, book recs, and everything else. I wanna know what’s going on inside your brain.
Feb 20, 2024
I need to share this list I made because it is such a blessing to me that I can just open youtube or vimeo and watch these lovely little movies. there’s a range of them like bergman, tarkovsky, polish films, art-house, weird matthew gray gubler short, experimental horror, short films from the 20’s. how fun.
Jun 8, 2024