Tides

The first theme we are exploring is…TIDES. Why tides…well, because it resonates with a lot of my thinking right now. Opposing forces, constant flux, cycles (life cycles, organic cycles, circular time). I expect to get lost into this theme for a good while.

This first image is a mess-about with Adobe Fresco. I am planning to do better than this, hopefully achieving a synthesis between hand drawn and computer augmented. It doesn’t matter too much now; this is more of a concept study. You’ll notice there is no line at the boundary, that was a conscious decision. The push/pull relationship between the opposing forces becomes more dynamic. I think the beautiful thing about tides is that no ‘line’ exists – that imaginary line is constantly shifting.

In the beginning…

So it begins…we start with the first visual entry, probably a temporary logo for this journal. It’s meant to suggest some meandering paths and somehow it ended up looking like a messy, knotted globe. I think this is a snapshot of what my mind feels like, or maybe it’s my perception of the world around me.

I’m not exactly sure what I’m setting out to achieve here. In a way I don’t want to untangle my thoughts and reduce them to ‘straight lines’, however, I’d like to clarify what is, for want of better words, the mental diarrhea that my brain keeps churning up.