I spend hours in art stores, wandering the isles, looking at
the different products and imagining what I could create. Often art stores
display work by their clients or employees. Sometimes you can also find
interesting accidental art. Such was the case recently. Below a neatly organized case of color markers were try out
pads. Test marks filled the pads. Who did these, I wondered? Was it an emerging
or famous artist, a student or a child? It was a collaboration of many who did
not know or meet each other. Random acts that somehow had become refreshing
found art. Unbounded marks free of
pressure to create great things. They were all beginnings. Some would take the markers home and make great art, other
doodles of wild imagination or commercial renderings. Below are photographs of the test pads. They reminded me of
what Picasso’s once said, “Every child
is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
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