I had a really good tutorial with Elizabeth and I need to start the process I’ve been somewhat avoiding until now. Filtering my ideas. I have too many and I am so interested in all of them that I don’t know where to begin. I think also the interconnected nature of them all is something I find also really difficult to untangle.
I am going to do some research into the tweens, learn more about how they think, who they are how they are represented in society. Also try and talk to their parents somehow. I’ve bought some books and found some Ted talks so that’s a start! Elizabeth sent me some tools for things like mind mapping and triangulation so I am going to have a go at this process. I’ve been putting it off though. I know this is a good idea and that it will help but there’s something about the idea that I haven’t managed to get going for some reason. Maybe I am scared? Maybe don’t want to get specific yet even though I know it’ll help? I think part of it is coming to terms with the idea that I need to park the context of art and creative process that I have been trying to anchor all my ideas with. Elizabeth is right when she tells me that I am looking at the solution to find a problem, the wrong way round, but maybe that’s why I have been putting it off. To that end, since I just can’t seem to find the wherewithal to use the mind mapping software my husband keeps very kindly putting in front of me, I will do what I know best and paint it out.