La la la LA. la. - A few Notes from Unlearning.

When we were asked to go out to the grounds and bring stuff in, so that we could make compositions using the material....why didn't we actually explore and go through all of the campus ?? We had been given 2 hours, but we only went to the ground right outside class. We perused, but we did not feel it truly. We concenterated more on procuring than truly experiencing... On the goal, more than the process.

WE LIMIT OURSELVES. WHY ?

When we made compositions and later portable versions of the same... Why did we have to a concept ? A story ? Why couldn't it just have been ??

WE GET CONFUSED, WHEN GIVEN FREEDOM.

- Don't narrow yourself down, saying you love this or hate this or that... or that you only want to do this and not that - 

Be broad-minded, don't just think of "why"s think of the "why-not"s !!

Be open, share, learn from other's work, don't hold it against them.

Don't make yourself an island, Don't be secretive about your work... be interested in everything and everyone around you, you'll never truly learn when you only focus on yourself.

Design Teachers don't oppose you...they are here with you.

Don't plug into your pod and tune out of what's happening around you. Anything can be an inspiration.

BE A PART OF WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW !!

Get comfortable with your place in this world, what a designer does, who you are, what you do and what you are going to do. Get excited about everything, and keep collecting inspirations. Always keep a journal !!

Unless you know what question to ask, you won't get the right answers.

EXPRESSION OF YOUR PERSONAL OPINION EVEN IF NO ONE ELSE GETS YOU, SHOULD NOT MAKE YOU ANTI-SOCIAL.

Design is not 2x2=4.

Anybody who comes up with innovations, your mom, other artisans, artists, people on the streets, off it or on it, anybody is your Design Peer. Learn from them !!

Universal Design is design that caters to everybody.

NATURE MADE DISABILITIES, WE MADE HANDICAPS.

Drawing something, is like drawing from a well. We are all wells, but you can only draw from a well if there is water in it.. so experience.touch.learn.feel.observe.take it all in. Drawing is not just visual. You need water in your well. Reproduce your sensations in your work.

Artists express their inner struggle or their interpretation of issues outside or around them, that is why they're often controversial, because they express it so.

We become different because our insights and thoughts on things change - because we think differently, not because of how we live, how we look etc., but because we interpret, receive, feel, think things differently with much more meaning or lesser or differently or as such. 

THAT IS WHY WE MAYBE PERCEIVED TO BE DIFFERENT.

Not because of anything else. Don't mix it up.

We have to get out of the Linear way of thinking things, this one sided way of looking at things realistically, learn to attribute, symbolise, imagine !!

Emotions make it real. Try other perceptions, abstract, unreal !! The lines between Abstract, real, Real abstract and Abstract-real are very thin.

Being Fashionable is nothing but being relevant in the moment. "The buzz" so to speak.

" I don't agree with what you're saying, but I will fight to death than take away your right to speak your mind"

- On Freedom of Expression.