March 16, 2011

Positive Sign #3 & 4

by Christine Wong Yap

Positive Signs is a weekly series of interpretive diagrams, quotes, and speculations on creativity, optimism* and the lives of artists, published every Wednesday through June.

Christine Wong Yap, Positive Sign #3 (99% Perspiration), glitter pen with holographic foil printing on gridded vellum, 8.5 x 11 in / 21.5 x 28 cm. 99 percent perspiration, 1 percent inspiration, Thomas Edison.

Christine Wong Yap, Positive Sign #4 (Work and Full Life), 2011, glitter pen on gridded vellum, 8.5 x 11 in / 21.5 x 28 cm. For creative individuals, work is not a way to avoid a full life, but rather is what makes life full. Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi

Christine Wong Yap, Positive Sign #4 (Work and Full Life), 2011, glitter pen on gridded vellum, 8.5 x 11 in / 21.5 x 28 cm.

*Notwithstanding brief forays into the nature of space, stuff, experience, and cognition.

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Next Wednesday: Positive Sign #5: Seven Elements of the Social Milieu Necessary for Creative Contributions.
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