The Art of Doodling
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A doodle is a quick, fun idea.
I'm not really sure I'm down with craft that much. I'm a little bit anti-craft. I think we should switch out skills for ideas.
I would choose graft over craft. It's about making stuff.
A doodle is when you're making something intuitively and you're not quite sure what it's going to be, but you feel good about what it is you're doing.
You can doodle with sound! It doesn't have to be an image. It can be a noise, a melody. It's about playing around with something.
Doodling, for me, is thinking and making at the same time.
Why is it great to create? Because it's enjoyable. It's fun making stuff—you start with nothing and end up with something else. Being creative opens up new ideas, exercises our brain, and makes us feel good.
Allow your imagination to be a raw material.
I like to say that I haven't sold my soul, I merely licensed it.
You can see stuff that you see everyday, use your brain to sort of bend the world around you and make it something else.
You need to say, 'This is a period of time in which I am going to try and make something.' If you don't do that, then how are you going to make anything?
Doodle doesn't have to be a drawing; it doesn't have to be just an image. It could just be a noise... t's just playing around with something.
A doodle... is a fun, quick idea.
I like to say I haven't sold my soul... merely licensed it.
I kind of abandoned craft, or trying to be good at anything, and I just tried to make work that was engaging and interesting, created by any means possible.
The more creative you try to be, the more creative you will be.
The interaction with the people was an integral part of the work, the performance.
The idea of it is funny and captured people's imaginations far more than the how well the box was made.