form—there, on the table

 

this_is_nothingGive yourself the time—make that time primary, of the first order.
Time to slow and move things around. Time to assess what is there in front of you.

Give yourself the freedom to look, stare, for hours.
Freedom to slow and move things around.

Freedom from assumptions of what it must be—that stuff there in front of you, pixel or cut paper.
Line, circle, square, dust, found scrap, string, stone, solid, liquid, stuff.

Move it around on a page, in a frame, on a screen or a table or both.
But by all means give yourself the time.

Work in muliple. Look across a range and choose to develop several/some in depth.
Always leave a trail either in paper or pixel or both for comparison, contrast, [alt].

Try scale, color, pattern, line, shape, etc — always options, contrasts for each. Compose, frame, crop, build.
Explore and experiment just with those shapes in the time you have made primary, of the first order.

Stay with it long enough for a dialog to develop between you and those forms you are exploring.
This is it. This is enough. This is study.

But it is not applied. It is too open. What is the greater context?
I am best when people tell me exactly what to do. There is no brief. 
It does not look like anything. It is not design. It makes no sense.
All of this makes me uncomfortable—it is nothing.

Give yourself the time—make that time primary, of the first order.
Time to slow and move things around. Time to assess what is there in front of you.

 

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