Let Ideas "Churn Below the Threshold of Consciousness"
What are we noticing and how are we letting connections form?
Welcome to the Weekend Edition of Creative Fuel. These Saturday newsletters usually include some ponderings, some links, and some kind of a prompt.
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“Once you find something that you are curious about, you will start to see it everywhere,” my friend andrea slusarski said the other night in a workshop.
She and I have been making jokes for a while now about being in the “Shapes Business,” both of us drawn to a variety of simple shapes and forms and trying to incorporate them in our work. We’ve both been seeing all kinds of shapes in all kinds of places, picking up on a visual language that surrounds us.
It reminds me of a Brian Eno Oblique Strategies card that I like a lot: “Once the search is in progress, something will be found.”
A different way of asking:
What do we notice in the world around us?
What’s pulling at our interest?
What connections are we making?
“Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
-Julia Child
I read this week about Julia Child’s notes from Jillian Hess, and her “things to investigate” list. It was a list of things that she needed more information on, differences between French and American ingredients. For example: “More water in salted butter?” and “Big typewriter?”
