I have been musing on chance a bit myself since composing those email collage
poems I sent. I spend a significant part of my creative effort on collage.
Much of collage construction may, to some degree be regarded as chance
relationships. In my work I use a combination of chance and attraction
limited within set compositional or process based restraints. This is to say
that I pick some predefined stratagy for arriving as some artistic goal but I
don't have a certain end result in mind, only the process of creation. This
is then modified by a selection of materials chosen by visual attraction that
I wish to use in conjuction with one another, then I just unleash myself and
let 'whatever' happen within that context. This removes the stress of success
or failure because, as long as I follow my plan, whatever happens IS
successful. I prefer to make art as a form of meditation so the more quiet
the mind is during the process of making collages the better I like it. Then
chance is at play but only in relation to a sort of call and responce type
interplay between what the material suggest to my mind and then how I lock in
the composition as it unfolds.
cecil
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