An experimental daily sketchbook that I designed for myself.
I don’t sketch all the time. So, as an artist, what do I do in my spare time?
- Think about things but let the thoughts pass rather than recording them,
- Get lost in concepts that I can’t make real,
- Voraciously consume books, magazines, and websites,
- Have conversations with people about art and life and whatever,
- Eat, sleep and or nap,
- Hug my dog, Miko,
- Design & edit a newspaper and art/literary magazine,
- Sometimes write in a notebook,
- Sometimes play a computer game,
- Not sketch.
- I have fumbled with numerous notebooks, sketchbooks, diaries, blogs, whatever.
- I know that keeping a sketchbook helps me to collect my visual thoughts and trace their evolution, and I enjoy finding the roots of an idea. - A good sketchbook can help me find out where an idea came from. A good sketchbook can show me how I develop. To show this, a good sketchbook needs to be consistent.
- I find it hard to be consistent without some kind of system. In seventeen years, I have almost never kept a good notebook/sketchbook.
- But that’s okay, because it takes alot of fumbling without a good system to figure out how a system should function.
- I enjoy creating and collaborating with systems. This is a new system, I will fill the same sheet out every day. Sometimes, at the end of the day, I won’t have anything interesting to say. And on certain days I won’t want to do this at all.
- But, I will do it every day, and worst case, if I forget or fall asleep or there is an earthquake, I will have to complete two sheets the next day.
- And so the parameters are set, let the sketching begin. The next sheet is a blank example of the form which I am to fill out every day.
—CAG 11/12/08