The Doodle project

On 1 October 2019, I started The Doodle Project with the sole intention of collecting the everyday.

I recorded everything from my first thoughts in the morning to overheard conversations, songs that took residence in my mind, objects of interest or invention and lines that flowed but never stopped. This resulted in a cryptic hotchpotch of information that many who viewed would try to decipher.

As I think back through the process of recording, part of me loved it, it gave me some time to really tune into my environments and hear it for what it was. I found myself asking more questions about modes of communication, the notion of reading into an image when you have not been called to do so, who decides this and why?

I questioned through the act of listening:

what does it mean to be in conversation? In conversation with who? In conversation where?

This was indeed a useful exercise, I continue to document and reflect on the captured without the pressure to do so when i do not feel. I’m inclined to see this as the development of language to guide my practice.

As the language develops, the conversation shall unfold and beckon an increase in audible output.

There is power in the everyday.