When I came in all I wanted to do was to figure out in my brain what would be the best course of action for a project, and then to do it. It makes sense, right? First, you use the smart part of your brain to logically determine the best medium for a work of art, where you want something to read quickly and where you want it to take time, how to accomplish that, how that all fits in with what you're trying to convey, etc.
Next, it's just work from there on out. Maybe the occasional spurt of artistic genius. Right?
All this 'thinking with your hands' and 'learning by experience' is analogous to using guess-and-check on a word problem instead of the more elegant algebraic equation, isn't it?
Hmmm... I don't think so anymore. There are definitely things I've discovered in my projects that I wouldn't have if I'd been doing things the logical way... for example, that you can make paper translucent with olive oil. So I'm starting to think that all this working with my hands--trying something, standing back, and giving a fresh thought to where it could take me--is the right way to go. And not only have I had the plan to work this way, but I've tried it and I'm starting to get the hang of it!
Now if only I could learn that the same goes for orienteering training, I'd be good to go. Unfortunately, now I realize that knowing something with my head is only half the battle...
