February 25, 2010
Dreams, Drywall, Slime Mold, and Stephan Anunson
What inspires people tends to be some of the most ridiculous things at first but once explained and applied they become the most fitting for that particular person, project, or event.
The kind of intellectual humor that dreams, drywall, and especially slime mold and Stephan Anunson have, when applied to new media sources it takes a certain amount of effort to control the humor when attempting to present the piece of work in which they are included.
Of course maybe what inspires people is not necessarily the subject they are presenting but the people, artists, fungi (not fungi?) that drive semes to explore these particular mediums, characters, and hallucinations or oneirology.
Who knew?
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I suppose sometimes it takes an unusual muse or mentor to create something unique and original that has never done before. If you use the same inspiration as everyone else or it has been done before so that you could have such a mentor, I think you would sacrifice some of your originality. Also, common inspirations are less interesting and that yields boring results.
ReplyDeleteA lot of the time I think we are inspired by people, places, events, etc. that we don't even realize until we are smacked in the face by something obvious, and sometimes we don't realize it at all. There are so many things out there that we might not think are important to us, but they still influence the way that we see things, the way we act, what we do... Of course after seeing Lawton's presentation, I realize how much SLIME MOLD has had an effect on my life...
ReplyDeleteInspiration is not so linear. Whatever prompts ideas is collecting from a myriad of memory sources and linking them together. Similar with face recall, Pandora's organization system, or completing a crossword puzzle, inspiration may be more simply associating a single aspect (that may be distinctly different from the original thought) with the idea. A final product may have many different inspirations, often times with an emphasis on one. Slime mold was not Lawton's primary inspiration, but had links to his project nonetheless.
ReplyDeleteFinding patterns and inspiration in natural forms is Fullerarian too with his looking toward bubbles for insight into structure.
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