Organised Creativity

Last week my partner and I visited a talk by Sue Lawty, the artist behind the hugely successful worldwide World Beach Project. Using interactive media largely based around Google Maps, people from around the world can create a piece in thier local beach using stones and upload it for the internet. The collection is officially housed at the V&A musuem in London but can be seen from anywhere on the web (click here for a preview)

Its a simple premise, based on the idea that we all love to be beside the sea nad have a real sense of relaxation and peace there that it is nice to share.

I asked my partner, poet Gareth Durasow, what he got from it and he said he liked the idea that the way Sue was creative was very organised and exact. She spoke of a piece of her called 'Calculus', whose dictionary defination meant infinitesimal change. Each stone was laid with absolute precision and had tiny changes that cascaded to make the mood of the piece. What he enjoyed about this was that it moved away from the concept of the artist being 'chaotic' 'expressionate' 'abstract' and generally what we think of as more right brained. In her artwork, and his as a poet, the focus was on being logical, perfect, almost mathmatical about the application of words or medium. A contradiction to common thought, is was eye opening to open the can on the numerate left brained artists working in order and precision and creating sometimes outstanding detailed pieces because of it. Here is a collection of what I think are left brained artworks for your perusal.

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