Thursday Thoughts...

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose".

Zora Neale Hurston

I write this post just after returning from one of our sessions of what we call Biblio - where we go out for breakfast, and sit with our toast and our coffee and read books and articles;  explore unusual things that are art-related; write poetry; and all other random type activities that make for an interesting art life.

And on return, this quote popped up as a true validation! I love the descriptor of poking and prying with a purpose!

The older I get, the more I think that curiosity is essential to staying alive. To being active and interested and vital and engaged and happy. Being curious about this that or the other random thing is great. 

Today at Biblio I was reading a book called You Are Here - a book about mapping and maps.

Mapping is only a small and tangential thing in my art life, I have done some work in the past about finding my place, and yet I am adoring reading the book and am bouncing ideas out of it left right and centre.

 I thinkI find myself on the cusp of curiosity and research. At the moment I am following the line of curiosity, but if things start to take shape in my mind; ideas coalesce into something that has a modicum of form; then perhaps it becomes research. As I am writing notes and jotting down names and websites and the like for follow ups, perhaps it already is...