A montage of some of my notebooks. Click to zoom in!
This is a quick montage of a selection of my notebooks over the last few years. As you may know, I often carry a little (usually black) notebook with me whenever out and about in the world (in normal circumstances at least). It is useful for jotting down or working through ideas, doing computations of research ideas, writing to-do lists, and -very importantly- it is an especially good means of reminding me to grab a moment to do a sketch. As a result, they’ve become a record of what I’ve been thinking about in certain periods, what I might have seen on the way to work (back when I was sketching faces on the subway), and also an interesting combination of marks on paper that I actually simply like just looking at.
On Thursday I’ll be taking part in a big event at the Getty Center/Museum (remotely) that is about art and science and the melding of the two (which in my mind are not in opposition as traditionally implied but in fact two facets of a more complete route to understanding and being in the world). I’ll be on a panel discussing some of these issues, and as part of our introductions of ourselves, we were asked to show a few slides of what “we’re about”. So one of my three slides will simply be this photo, which I think speaks for itself.
(For those of you who want more information on the notebooks I like to use, see here.)
-cvj
