Science and creativity

This is a photo of our body heat (although it does look like we're on an 80s acid house album cover)


It took me a long time to realise that there was a beneficial connection between these. At school I pretty much daydreamed through all of my science classes and was convinced science was about measurements and I wasn't that sort of "measuring" person.

So it wasn't until I was at university studying Fine Art, that I actually developed an interest in science. If any one knows me from then they'll know about my interest in black holes. I actually began to paint black holes around the building and it became part of my degree show work. They did actually look like physical holes but they were only holes you could enter in your imagination, not the type you get sucked into and loose time etc etc.

Anyway focusing on design the past couple of years I don't seem to do as much interesting reading and exploring as I used to. I seem to be more turned on to absorbing initial visual impact, rather than developing my trail of thought through processes and seeing where it takes me. But I went to the centre for Life museum in Newcastle last weekend and Ive gotten a new taste for combining creative curiosity and science. I was on a day trip with my mum and nephew so didn't get masses of time to play around with all the science toys but they do have a lot of things to be hands on with and a planetarium.


I definitely have to get back onto that way of thinking and see where it takes me. Surely this is better research for new designs in my search for true originality rather than re-creating designs from the past?



Here's me in some mirrors-well they called it a giant kaleidoscope