Motivation

Recently, completely on a whim, I joined The Sketchbook Project. Basically, you choose a theme, give some money and they send you a sketchbook that will eventually go on a tour around the country "like a concert". (It says "World Tour", but your books only travel in your own country which I rather thought was false advertising)

Anyway.

My book finally arrived with my theme of "Uncharted Waters", which feels relevant to a land locked desert rat with a secret love affair with all things nautical.

That's what I thought until I realized that everything that I think about so far is charted. Is misguided cartography the same as something that is uncharted? Perhaps if you were trying to get somewhere it would be. But they are still a guide, my little maps. If something is charted, even if incorrectly, it wouldn't fit within this theme.

Uncharted Waters ought to be something I don't usually do. Uncharted Waters implies a metaphor, something that we stray from when we're away from the college/art/poetic world for a time. Whatever it means ought not to be over-thought, which is definitely what I'm doing.

I'll just be over here, drawing in this tiny, post-consumer recycled sketchbook.