QUOTE="Duke LeJeune, post: 671134, member:
Yess!! And ime the end vision may morph as you move closer to where it was, but that's just the nature of the beast, and part of what makes the creative process so interesting and rewarding.
I learned about the process playing with Legos as a kid: Rummage through the Lego bin and see what pieces are available, then you can start to imagine what can be created with them... but the process hasn't necessarily stopped. You might start out building a racing car and end up building a really sleek tank because that's where the process takes you. And the journey itself is arguably more rewarding than the destination... before long that sleek tank is evolving into a space ship. Speakers can be a big-boy version of Legos.
Mine was with Cuisinaire rods... simple coloured wooden blocks... ours was a small country town world and LEGO was great sophistication from the big smoke by comparison. Play is the start of every project. The preliminary design begins in the sandbox with a stick and sand to sketch into.
Ime the math and other details can make or break a loudspeaker design... fortunately the stakes aren't as high as in architecture!
YESS!! It's not until the process is underway, with Lego pieces scattered all around your almost-finished racing car, that you realize what it really wants to be is, a tank.
Love that... but I wanna be a tank. It’s like when you look at a great natural stone you can see the underlying story trying to get out. Or the first lines of charcoal on paper, the final image is already there underneath the very first markings. It just may not be what you first think it is.
The first thought I remember ever having was opening my eyes and being aware of a figure at the end of a long spiralling cord. I realised later it was my earliest recalled view of my mother ironing with the iron cord suspended across the ceiling. I asked my mum about it many years later and it was actually how she ironed when I was in my cot in our first house when I was a child for the first 18 months or so of my childhood. I won’t tell her but my fascination was actually in the spiral shape itself. My second earliest memory was sitting on my trike at about 3 years of age on the veranda eating a vegemite (Aussie salty black stuff) on Sao biscuits and squeezing the top and the bottom Saos and making dual golden butter and black vegemite interlaced spirals rise out of the little holes across the crispbread... I was fascinated by the spirals creating movement out and that the spiral tracing movement always leads back to itself... these are the two embedded earliest images I have and also my first experience of what numinous feels like... and I’ve been an unfortunately flowering designer ever since in my own kinder-garden trying to make sense out of the way shapes shape experience and how they lead us to unfold and also initiating into a budding/sprouting/culminating/dissolving Taoist ever since
... Please nobody mention the snowflake word lol.
It’s actually taken near a lifetime to finally come to understand what these images actually meant to me and why I sensed they were needing to be understood and how they never leave me and how they beautifully reflect the underlying unfolding and enmeshed pattern of life and our living.
Play is always the start of the great work.
I can't help but wonder whether the Creation stories are leaving out the part where the Creator goes through The Process again and again. Otherwise, "creation" seems like an incredibly boring job to me. Maybe those parts get glossed over because the passage of Time goes unnoticed when you are In The Zone.
I can just imagine a bad day at the creation office... Hmmm, well they’re much bigger than I expected, how is that ever going to be practical... [use the comet reset button]
... whoops goes the dinosaurs... and hello to the age of the birds!!...
and next!!!
