21 June 2004
Organic
At a recent festival event I met Tim Wright, a digital writer. His site is www.oldton.com. We had a fascinating discussion - which ran out of time with the audience still itching to ask more questions.
One of the things we shared was a love of the way stories can grow organically. That is the process he encourages at www.oldton.com and it is one of the things that excites me about www.mosselabyrinth.co.uk.
As creator and writer in residence of this site, I seek to encourage visitors to make their own contributions. The writing our visitors send to us is remarkable, inspired by faces, landscapes, ideas and emotions.
Another recent meeting was at West Dean, a college of Fine Arts and Crafts in West Sussex. Several working artists displayed slides of their work and spoke for half an hour. It was intriguing to hear how each one wanted to tell the story of the work - how it evolved in their imagination, how they came to realise the finished artifact.
Then another meeting - this time social - but where I met someone who has a business selling wall clocks in the form of motor scooter wheels, with spanners for hands and numbers set in alongside the disk brake pads ... It's a conversation piece - which means it encourages your imagination to weave stories ...
And the connections are organic.
Grow through the Labyrinth.
