- Started with the 6 main areas of personal interest: drawing, colour, texture, newness, the natural world, individuality and identity,
- Required a deep searching to arrive at these areas and then even more deep searching to explore them more fully.
- It was like gathering fragments into one basket.
As part of the process I decided to take an object which I love and draw it to see what that told me. This was pretty basic analysis but I think it helped. I bought a large Amaryllis bulb, and just drew..
- As strange as it may seem, I could see that this drawing and much of the information on the mind map were about identity and Australia. I don’t know why I love the old, the discarded, the seemingly ugly, the rough and the raw but I do. I see immense beauty in these things. It’s how I respond to the world.
PATRICIA FARRAR 