Hello! We are nearly at the end of this ‘advent calendar’ of emailed treats.
Look at your everyday world with different eyes
For this second last email, I thought we’d do something playful. I spotted this game on Twitter (I think it was instigated by the Getty Museum) during that first lockdown the whole world went into in early 2020.
What you do is think of a work of art that you like, and then replicate it on the floor or a table with things you have lying around the home, such as tea towels, bath towels, scarves, anything that matches in terms of colour and texture. Check out some examples on this website.
My own attempts to do this looked dreadful, but even just trying to do it led me to think about and appreciate the world of colour, shape, line, and texture and that’s the genius of this exercise: it enlivens that inner eye that can look at the world in more vivid terms.
So, look about you, at everyday items, with a different gaze and see what you can make.
What I also love about this exercise is that it is a reminder that you can make art out of anything, like this Australian farmer did when, realising that he wasn’t going to get to his aunt’s funeral due to lockdown, he constructed a tribute by using sheep, feed, and a drone.
See you tomorrow for the last email in this series, which will include news about my plans for more emails during 2022.
Meredith
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