A Little Note on Creating / by Mirena Rhee

The idea is that there are certain phases to creating anything at all. Whether you weave a basket, whether you create anything really out there, you need all these phases to be completed, or to be looked at at least. Even if you weave a basket, you need a blueprint, even if it's a drawing with a stick in the sand. Even if you do a painting, even if you don't have an idea for a painting, and you have a procedural way of approaching art. Say you have an emotional way of creating, even in these circumstances, even in instances where you have an emotional way of creating, even in those instances, you need a blueprint. You need a modus operandi. You need that kind of flower, the lotus in your hand, in your head. So out of this cloud of ideas, you basically distill something. Whether it's a product, whether it's an idea or a very concrete thing, object. You need these facets, and you need to consider them.

Why I'm saying this is because any time I look at a project, commercial or fine art, where I need certainty, but I also need this innocence, a wobble of sorts. Anytime I'm about to create something, I hold this in my mind, where is this thing, where am I standing on that little schematic.