How a sleepless night led me to find calm in chaos

NOTES FROM MY ART JOURNAL

10/11/16
Wake up before 4.00am
Donald Trump won the election.
I am anxious so I get up.

Let Jimmy in. Go to my art room. Mess everywhere, just like my brain at the moment. Chuckle. The external representing the internal. Embrace the mess of my own making.

Creativity prevails over chaos

• the impulse to clean up and create order gives way to
• the impulse to take photos
• I become interested in the process
• artworks will emerge from this at some point

The works that evolved years later play with time, uncertainty, mortality. All of the collage pieces come from digitally recoloured photos taken on that night. And the question is? Well it’s not so much about THE question as about ASKING questions.