Casting a spell breathes life into something. It feels like something taps potential. We honor this aspect of play by defining a playground. We define ”in.”
[Breath begat potential]
A friend likes to demark a performance or studio space by placing bright tape on the floor. He establishes a perimeter or a playing field and then steps inside in order to perform. He alters his awareness and attention when he stands inside. I once set up a studio in a corner of a room as a very small play space, enhancing my focus on my found object assemblages. Most of the objects ended up inside; some objects ended up outside the line. In a way that place still exists for me. I must have placed special intention for it to sustain itself after several years.
[demarcation begat stage]
We can elaborate boundary concepts remembering crayoning. Crayoning inside the lines serves as a reminder to recognize the line, but the line does not define crayoning. The line describes a boundary, and it does dictate certain behavior. Impulses and decisions inform our choice. We make a response to the impulse and express it in our behavior.
Creativity represents that give and take between the impulse and decision. [impulse begat decision]
Casting the Spell #1: Exploring the Spell
In an opened ended fashion, find a used box of crayons. Find an image in a newspaper. Color in the lines of an advertisement. Now let the coloring take on its own energy, color outside the lines and if the paper tears redefine the edge of the field. Let it take on a form. Like cloud reading find an animal or face. Place this to the side and write about the spell that we cast. Repeat the process, creating a second piece. Imagine that these two forms have some relationship to each other and use circles arrows to represent this.
[Lines begat boundary]
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