Make written notes on both the Michael Golec essay and the creative practitioners whose work interests you and why in your learning log.
“Rather than setting out to paint something, I begin painting and as I paint, the picture begins to assert itself.” - Joan Miró
Joan Miró is someone's work I recognise. Familiar with the line work with blocks of colour that build up a surrealist artwork. I found the above quote listed on Moma to be the perfect way for summarising what automatic drawing or creating means. To simply begin, with no plan or intentions, and allow the process to build and develop the intention.
When considering where good ideas come from, a theme in this part, the idea of freeing yourself from expectation, inspiration and influence, and allowing yourself to flow through automation is a great way to develop ideas. In fact, ideas don't actually have to be materialised until the works are complete. If taking on this direction of working, then the way you present the final works might just be what brings the idea. Making sense of what you created from automation, almost like an outer body experience filled with subconscious movements, perhaps related to emotions of that moment. When combining a body of work, this could then communicate something to you that you hadn't expected, as a result discovering the idea, or the reason.
LINKS
https://www.moma.org/artists/4016 - 22.10.24
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