A SOURCEBOOK OF MATERIALS AND PROCESSES
“How do we choose our specific material, our means of communication? ‘Accidentally.’ Something speaks to us, a sound, a touch, hardness or softness, it catches us and asks us to be formed. We are finding our language, and as we go along we learn to obey their rules and their limits….Ideas flow from it to us and though we feel to be the creator we are involved in a dialogue with our medium. The more subtly we are tuned to our medium, the more inventive our actions will become.”
-Anni Albers, 1982
PROJECT OVERVIEW
Over the course of the semester, we have been discussing ways of making, devising methods for cultivating creativity, and identifying the underlying importance of materials and processes we choose. For this project, each student has selected a material or process that holds significance for them as a maker. They have each contributed a piece of writing along with a number of visuals in order to create this digital sourcebook of materials and processes.
*All written and visual contributions to this website are from Alia Pialtos’ ARTS3097: Special Topics: Thinking Through Making students during the Spring 2015 semester at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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