Great meeting this week! Thank you so much for everyone who contributed their time. This week we had a little more structure, and gave everyone 15 minutes of uninterrupted time. If the speaker wanted feed back or had questions, there was the space for that, but the main point was to just talk about yourself, to open ears. Really working with the idea of holding space. There was only four of us, but I think this could work with a larger group too.I'd love for everyone to share the notes that we took while one another was talking!
At the end of the meeting we talked about the potential for having a space on this sight to post resources.
And there was interesting in having a virtual "throw-a-thon"
For the next week I invited everyone to invite the intention of play into their practice. What does that mean to you and how can that inform you work?
Lilly:
-take baby steps back into making work
-big challenges in making in a pandemic, why make if you can't fire work, what's the point (I identify with this a thousand times over)
-how can we think about art as ephemeral again, have the mindset of freshman year again
-let go of need to "finish" something for it to be a "valid" thing
-how to have a casual approach to sketching. challenge of thinking if you aren't putting hours of time into something its not "worth it." instead put 20 min aside, and develop a practice (I personally do this with literally everything)
-work though a bunch of ideas, and pick one to expand.
-Lazy?!?! (hell no!!!! that's just capitalism in your ear my friend. and we're also in a global crisis)
-how can you train/ yourself to develop a practice ( goals and rewards?)
-How do you need routine and structure to develop a studio practice? (what can different from of routine and structure look like? how can you create this in what seems to be chaos?) (my thoughts: how does routine and structure relate to self soothing)
Bree:
-yay about drawing and narrative building exercises
-interest in objects about creating a personal relationship to food
-build a cup with a narrative in mind, or play with narrative and build congruently with the cup
-what the heck do we even mean when we talk of a narrative?
-how does a cup create a narrative/experience
-whats the experience you want to exist around this object
-makers control (ie make people do what they want)
-interest in object about community gathering, and creating an experience
-questions about how to resolve the surface treatment (think about what comforts you, and other people will like that)
-maybe make a mood-board :0
-buzz words: community, comfort, control
Casey:
-pickle mug attention
-quit job (yay!)
-how to find identity as a designer and a maker?
-what does the humble potter identity mean?
-how to show elevated since of quality/ inform buyers that its a "luxury" item (ie why it costs so much)
-seems like the answers is in the branding
-she loves the 90s and Taco Bell