boxes
I like boxes. I like the soundness of their parameters. The solidity of their boundaries. I'm more comfortable thinking inside them than I am without them.
A sandbox. A whiteboard. A viewfinder. A notebook. A canvas. A medium. A genre. Four discernible sides. A definable scope and scale. A limited footprint. An exacting square footage. It's where the work of imagining happens. It's where ideas come from. It's where the work gets done.
It's the liberation of constraint. The limitless possibility of limited space. Boxes want to stay boxes. They try to stay themselves, the more you try to make them something different.
Boxes are great at holding tension.
Boxes give you something to start from. They give you something to work with. But, more importantly, they give you something to push against.
P.S. - One of the problems with keeping such a disciplined daily collage practice is that I produce a lot of work. That may not sound like a problem, but I live and work in a really small space. All those collages pile up and take up space.
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P.P.S. - I made a process video for my paid subscribers showing the making of the collage at the top of this post. You can find it here.
P.P.P.S. - ICAD Day 354-356
Chesterton said the most important part of any picture is the frame. Great post!
Yes, constraints... So much more interesting than total freedom
I continue to feel so enthusiastic about your work, I really do! So inspiring.