Abstract:
This book explicitly contains and displays nine months of conversations, making, doing, playing, thinking, design and process. It also implicitly displays four years of undergraduate exploration as well as twenty three years of experiences. It is impossible to distill the work contained here down into one simple statement or even a series of statements. In fact, doing so would be a disservice to this journey, as it has not followed a pre-determined path at any point throughout the past nine months. Alternatively, this journey has been one of many fragments. Fragments, that on their own rarely hold significant weight, but when combined with others, begin to form a complex web of ideas that provide the energy for this creative endeavor.
This fragmented journey was intended to be a personal, some may call it self-indulgent, exploration into the creative process. An attempt was made to discover and understand the relationships between the fragmented process and how it closely relates to the often scattered way of thinking and doing that determines the irrational paths I forge. At times, this journey made leaps and bounds through physical acts of making and through research into the actual creative process itself. At the same time, this journey became stagnant in a variety of ways, challenging the strength of my own process and the ability to overcome these periods of stagnation. However, I confidently proclaim that this journey did yield powerful conclusions into the ways my creative process unfolds throughout the challenges and triumphs of the exploration.
This book will take you through these various fragments and expose the connections between some of those them, but it will also leave unanswered questions relating to the seemingly irrational leaps that some of these projects have made. The only explanation for this is buried in the mysterious ways that the unconscious and conscious minds interact. Fortunately, they did align and provide moments of clarity at a number of points throughout this journey.
The journey exhibits an introspective exploration of the creative process by reacting unconsciously to creative impulses and through critical observation of the built environment.
