Words

Exploring connections in words in order to gain new ideas for art pieces is something I had't necessarily ever thought of before reading about Strategies in Chapter five of our text. Stewart really shows a huge plethora of different sources for influence and inspiration to artwork. 

I have been learning about Divergent and Convergent boundaries in my Geology class here at WSU, so learning about the artistic approach to Divergent and Convergent thinking was pretty interesting. I feel like I was clearly able to understand what Steward was writing about because of my prior knowledge of the application of those words, and I think I can see why words and being able to link them to other words and thoughts might play a key role in art creation.

Since our minds tend to tie words that we know or think we know to a meaning, we can then utilize those words to tie emotions related to them into our art, and that is pretty freaking cool. 

I once tried to participate in a 100 day drawing challenge where you took 100 subjects/topics based entirely on words or phrases and create a drawing for each. I failed utterly and could only stick to it for about twenty days, but it was really challenging and fun trying to think of original artworks to draw that would go along with the theme but not necessarily be completely obvious. 

Reading through this chapter is almost making me want to try doing that challenge again.