CASE STUDY: Keri Smith

LINKS:

• https://makezine.com/2007/06/04/interview_with_keri_smith/
• http://www.kerismith.com/WishJarTales/brainfactor_interview.pdf
• http://www.kerismith.com/bio
• http://about-creativity.com/an_interview_with_keri_smith/

USEFUL QUOTES:

• "for most people working in a journal can be intimidating- many are afraid to make a mistake. The journal itself becomes a precious thing. The blank page a big hurdle"
• "make a journal where the context was solely based on experimentation"
• "the book itself is filled with prompts of this nature which instruct you to systematically destroy it. For some people this can be incredibly freeing"
• "wanted to create work that was very much a physical experience connected to daily life"
• "doing work in a controlled way does not make for interesting results"
• "our culture teaches us that there is a standard that is most desirable and that things that are imperfect are less desirable"
• "You can also see this applied to the emotional realm - dark, ugly, or negative emotions are deemed dysfunctional"
• "I love the idea of creating books that give people more of a direct experience with life instead of walking through it passively"
• "creativity is the ability to perceive things (and the world) from many different angles in a non-judgemental way"
• "by 'wrecking' something we are transforming it"
• "the book is a place for ideas and processes to exist without judgement"
• "I like the idea of creating a work where the reader becomes a participant in an experience (as opposed to a passive witness)"
• "there may be hundreds or thousands of possible solutions to a problem, the 'book' then has many different 'lives or permutations and will change depending on the depending on the perceptions of the user"
• "I am interested in what the writer Umberto Eco has called "the open work", works of art that call upon performers, readers, viewers or listeners to complete or realise them"