Collaboration Idea: 'Are You Satisfied' publication

Influence:

Patternity - Wavescape

Patternity took over Now Gallery in Greenwich with a celebration of the positive power of patterns. We collaborated with them to create a “meditative visual journey projecting patterns of waves and ripples merging with the Patternity vector graphic hoardings designed for Greenwich Peninsula.

What is Patternity?


A WAY OF SEEING – A WAY OF BEING

Pattern is everywhere we go and it’s in everything we do 
It’s there when we look up, down and all around, outside ourselves and deep within 
Pattern speaks a powerful universal language that connects us all.

We’re living in an age of overload and complexity
The systems we are a part of are failing 
We’ve become so focused on the ‘I’ not the ‘we' 
We have lost our sense of connection to our environment, each other and to ourselves
It’s time to wake up and reconnect the dots.

Let’s start asking questions:
Can the way we look at the smaller details enhance our awareness of the bigger picture? 
If we visualise the unseen, can it create true innovation?
Does being more mindful make us happier and healthier? 
Can being more grateful everyday affect the world around us?
How can our interconnectivity with nature teach us all to live more sustainable lives?

Let’s be more curious
Let’s look closely, notice the details and appreciate the excellence of our everyday world 
Let’s look beyond, dig deeper, and feel part of a beautiful interconnected whole
Let’s open up as we celebrate nature’s cycles, the rhythms that shape and give meaning to life 
Let's listen to the wisdom she wants to share

It’s time to come together to collaborate, play, wonder and explore
Let’s learn from the patterns of the past and co-create a new pattern for the future
Join us on the journey...

"Because a shared awareness and understanding of pattern will positively shape our world"

Decided written brief, emailed to artists:

Satisfy me. A creative response to:

Are You Satisfied?

Concept:

A publication that covers a variety of creative styles and artistic mediums, in response to the constant idea of satisfaction. 

Does an institutionalised perception of perfection mould our society? By focusing on the various creative depictions of being satisfied, and notions of satisfaction can we reach a more realistic embodiment of what makes us content. 

Definition:

satisfy

verb: satisfy; 3rd person present: satisfies; past tense: satisfied; past participle: satisfied; gerund or present participle: satisfying

1.     meet the expectations, needs, or desires of (someone).

2.     provide (someone) with adequate or convincing information or proof about something.

3.     MATHEMATICS (of a quantity) make (an equation) true.

adjective: satisfying

1. giving fulfilment or the pleasure associated with this.

Response ideas:

• sacred geometry / golden ratio in design
• how we are instinctually more attracted to symmetrical things
• ideals of perfection vary from person to person 
• modern day globalisation & mass media unifying ideals / creating a visual identity for what is visually pleasing 
• the way things are broken, the way they sit in a scene...

sublimity. ... When something is sublime, it transcends greatness or beauty for the observer — like a deeply moving film or a transcendent piece of music. So when something is truly wonderful, or someone acts in a truly noble way, it's an example of sublimity. The Latin root, sublimis, means "uplifted, high, or exalted.”

Could it be more basic?

think;

- visual

- literal

- personal

- overcomplicate / under complication the notion 

- what is the words origins?

- does perfection mould our society?

- is the very basis of nature being geometrically perfect (the sublime) representative of our responsive attraction and satisfaction with the scenic?

- 'appreciating the little things’ making people focus in on small or unappreciated things in our hectic & compact lives

^ optical illusions

^ symmetry

^ colour distortions

^ accidental processes (exposed film/ something spilt ect)

^ something that relaxed you

^ a nice scene (building/ corner/ composition)

^ unappreciated moments (a reflection/ a person doing a good dead/ a satisfying sound depicted)

submissions can be in the form of; 

collage, painting, illustration, photography, sculpture, piece of writing (short story/ poem),  installation (if 3d or performance piece should be documented by photograph).

Please ask for specific measurements if needed. 

The ideology behind this publication are these fundamental thoughts:

*Can the way we look at the smaller details enhance our understanding of the bigger picture?

*Does being more mindful make us happier and healthier?

*Can challenging our perception of the everyday positively affect the world around us?

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This is a chance to have your work featured in a publication alongside young creatives around the country, promoting the importance of creativity in education and expression.

Submission deadline: 3/2/2018