So, a friend of mine is taking part in the SoulPancake Challenge. Well, it's not really like a competition, but more like a self-imposed activity to sit down and "chew on life's big questions"...as it's stated on the soulpancake.com anyways. You challenge yourself I guess....and maybe bring others into the discussion too.
I've been following her vlogs and some of them are pretty sweet, some get me thinking, some need to be expressed and some are just fun. Simply fun.
Seeing how much fun my friend's been having, and seeing some of the questions that she's chosen to answer, I've decided to put myself through the "challenge" too.
The neato thing about this, is that I can choose to do it any way I want. Oh yeah...there's a book to go along with it too...and honestly who doesn't want more books. But yeah, I bought the book (and yes the artwork in it is pretty cool too) and decided to answer a question a day until I work my way through all the questions....then I'll start over again maybe. We'll see. The awesome thing is that there are no rules. It's just a medium to get you thinking about what it's like to be a "spirit having a human experience"....or something like that.
I still haven't decided what my creative medium will be. There's videos out there, I could also write out my ideas...but they tend to ramble. I think I express and understand myself best through diagrams and sketches....so that might be good to start and then I'll see where it takes me. I started to put my sketches in a journal I bought in Seattle that I've been waiting for "something good" to put in. I realized that right now, I have almost 30 years of experience behind me....what better "stuff" to put in that journal than reflecting pretty deeply over the last 30 years....and I guess the next 30 years to come too. Honestly, it's such a sweet journal (leather cover, hand bound, smells like saddle oil, parchment paper, wrap cover....it's the kind of journal that when someone says "journal", this is exactly what you picture...really) that I don't want it to go to waste, and it's been sitting on my shelf for a bout a year without a single entry. Last night that changed.
I'm still mulling about last night's question "How do you determine truth?". I've thought about it a bit, and have made some sketches, diagrams, plot, charts, etc.; but I don't think I'll have fully answered that question (at least fully-answered to satisfy my academically-minded self). I may come back to it next week and see what changes.
Today's question is "What is the purpose of art?". I have a few ideas...I'll put pen to paper tonight.
I think the only thing that will stay consistent in this challenge will be that I'll limit myself to one question a day. Too many questions and I'll bog myself down so much that I won't actually get any work-related thinking done....I think. (Oh yeah, and "work" is actually going really well for a change....more on that in another post....maybe later today.) I've also decided that I'll give myself the question first thing in the morning and file it in my "Mulling Over" compartment in my brain and come back to it before bed. See how that goes.
I'm excited.
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