If your lair is ones 3 x 4 office space - then sitting amongst ones very silent but visually loud crystallized creative thought outcomes is an interesting learning curve. This life is nothing if not brutally humbling. The concept for those in the creative arena, is that the design creative arena is definitely not for the shy, timid, sensitive and easily offended.
As a creative one has strengths and weaknesses - To recognize our own weaknesses is the strength. So next week the wildetect machine will be approaching and hopefully aligning with a marketing company. Paying for the external creative audit of ones black and blue 6 year beat up till this point. Ultimately to be sustainable one needs to sell ones work and brand. When ones work is conceptual and a process of experimentation which it is for myself, wildetect 3 of 3 - In a world fervently seeking constant end products. Sketches don't really sell a sustainable future. So the 2 elements i have fought vehemently to shun. Are now being entertained at the front door of the lair. for me the last bastion of individuality and self respect is now teetering on the mundane and normal. All to pay to fight further on in a design creative arena. (sigh.) Wildetecture has successfully brought ergonomics to commissioned pieces. I dont start my design process at that point. That for me is a step very much towards the end of the process. For me wild design isnt shackled by functionality at the off.
Ive found my set of skills over 20 yrs of teaching draughting and design. is i feel in a strange way, is one of creative validator. So many fiercely creative people are awaiting permission to release their unique design energy. They hold back because of the many cauterized moments they have experienced, when they have been completely flayed wide open by a non creatives critical gibberish. Perhaps by teachers , parents , a contemporary or a host of people in the know who know what people want from creatives. The reality is creatives can be immensely sensitive - So any negativity is like strong ether under the nose. Its like touching an open anemone - they retreat so far into their shells after being touched - you never see them again. Unfortunately true mostly to never ever be seen again. One has to realize, sadly many people take immense delight in destroying ones artistic creative resonance, with wise words disseminated by minor showmen the world over. Completely obliterating ones flame of creativity. Me - and with the folk ive taught over the years - has been to focus on artistic self belief and more often than not the student has become greater than the teacher. I am not threatened by others abilities - even when mostly their creative abilities way surpass my own.
So a new day dawns - Constant change of approach and constant dialogue for a new design way forward. Interesting times for the wildetect creatives. The licking of the proverbial wounds opens a new chapter now and wildetect itsy witsy creative spider lives again, if not just to climb once more.
Had fun yesterday packing up my wildetect work after an exhibition in cape towns creative mecca - woodstock. Full of top end designers and creative geniuses.
My toyota avanza was choc-ca block jammed with the crystallized creative skeletal thought parts. It took awhile to carefully pack the giant pieces into the guts of the vehicle.
Incidentally i went into Gugulethu the other day - and to my complete amazement 95% of the vehicles in Gug's are toyota avanzas. It was like riding through an avanza show room - i realized why when i sent my car into the workshop for repairs - It came back with many parts pirated. i informed the powers that be - the answer was as their is no proof they couldn't help. The car is currently going through a schizophrenic phase of barely coping. The pirated parts are
