Inspiration from physical artefacts

This evening I was on a wonderful call about websites where, at two points, I reached for books that were around me as a visual reference. One of the books was “Mini Louvre”, a gift given to me that contains images and information about various artworks in the Louvre. We ended up talking about how there should be more picture books for adults, something I raised after sharing my excitement about the Mini Louvre book. This led me further to think about my use of Mini Louvre in the last week.I was looking for inspiration for a blog post and I decided to flick through the Mini Louvre book. I didn’t go in with any aim in particular, rather I wanted to skim the pages and see what I could find. I do this sometimes with poetry books too. The way I decided on the poem “Repeat that, repeat” for the collaborative challenge I did with Ruben was that I opened some of my poetry books, flicked through, and chose one that was short and seemed approachable in terms of analysis. I loved the practice…