15 Bundles Of Fun (Creativity Exchange)

Every week (we're on our fifteenth!), TheRacket and I exchange creative works with each other. We then mull over the pieces, sometimes with instant purpose other times with a bit more difficulty, and display our creative response to the other's original work on Fridays. The name for this venture is obvious: Creativity Exchange. (Here's a post that has a gallery of past exchanges and other information regarding The Exchange.)

TheRacket's half is over here. Pay attention to his deft skill- as he transforms a mediocre sketch to fine and intentional brilliance.

And now for my half, (words by TheRacket):

[starlight lucidity]

fleece
clouds enshroud
a shiver moon

a mourning dove
coos warblesong

your mitten hand
gives mine a
squeeze

a bonfire cackles

(image by nomad- click here for a larger or here to see the original sketch)

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artspicelovezen on

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I love your exchanges with TheRacket! Love 'em! Such an artistic person inside and out...

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nomad on

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Thank you. We really enjoy doing it. =)

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scaryfairy on

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Wonderful, to show us your work in progress. I always think that's so clever, when graphics artists put together self-promotion kits that let you in on the process. It's a little like a secret, but not the whole story. Very exciting.

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nomad on

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Me too. I always intend saving the work in progress but when I get in there I just steamroll ahead... I will try to do it more since you enjoy it. And if you and I both enjoy it, others must too.

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scaryfairy on

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I know (re: the forgetting to save the last version.) !! Theoretically, you could make your hard drive explode with all the saves.

But I will - I WILL - love to see those. And I mean 'love'. Once you wrote the above, I realize it's even more than the 'peeking in' that thrills. There's something profoundly gratifying about knowing/touching something being crafted.

Oh, this is fascinating to me, now: what that thing is that gets stirred up. I just put together a cd-rom (auto-run, like a little movie without the expense of DVD conversion - and THAT was fun) ... oh. But ... in hunting through my archives, I found a folder from - wait a second - oh. five years ago. I opened it blithely.

EEEEEEEk. EEEK and more eeek. Funny and scary at the same time, how goddawful some of my work was (which isn't meant to say anything about what it is NOW, but ...) I was fascinated by my own development and pretty damned grateful, too, that I'd had nothing to judge by (yeah. about three people in the world did flash back then. yeah!) There's just something in the ... history.

ANYway. Yes. yes. yes! I can not wait.

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nomad on

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I can only hope to look back at the work I do here, today, in five years time and Eeeek! lol

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nomad on

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Yes! Yes! Yes! Seeing the process thrills me. Knowing it was nothing and then seeing it was a smidge of something and then seeing a bit more and a bit more. I learn so much from watching that process. It has a doable graspability. Or graspable doability. (Ha ha ha, I crack myself up with sentences like that last two.)

Seeing finished works are all fine and good, but seeing the castaways and Leonardo sketches are where it's at, yo. (lol- what is with me?!) Fine, I see this quality, professionaly product, and yeah, it is stunning, but how'd you get there and where is the flaw that makes it real?