Trust Your Crazy Ideas...

Hello.

If you landed here, it might be because you found a piece of art with this web address on it. Welcome.

I created these pieces of art to inspire you in your daily life. We all have "crazy ideas" in our heads, things that urge us to experiment, to take chances, and to follow our hearts.

I want to encourage everyone to listen to your heart and follow its advice. Your heart knows you and what you want. Whom better to give you advice than your own heart?

If you found a piece of art, would you add a comment to this blog post? Please tell me the art number (#29xxx) and where you found it. I would love if you felt comfortable to share your "crazy idea" here with the rest of us, too.

I'm going to keep updating this blog post with information about the unfolding of my public art project. So keep checking back to see what others have found and their own crazy ideas.

Godspeed in your journey,
Charlene

Crazy Ideas Public Art Project

1. Art pieces #29001 through #29010 distributed in Phoenix, Arizona starting Friday, March 20, 2009.
2. Art pieces #29011 through #29012 distributed in Phoenix, Arizona starting Friday, March 27, 2009 [see art image]
   
3. Art pieces #29013 through #29022 distributed in Seattle, Washington starting Sunday, March 29, 2009. [see art image]
4. Art pieces #29023 through #29032 distributed in Phoenix, Arizona starting Friday, April 10, 2009. [see art image]
   

Public Art Project

Today, I was in my studio for the first time in over 3 months! Boy, it's been a crazy time in my life. But after picking up some of the holiday present mess I left, after dusting things off, and after putting away some treasures I've purchased in these last few months, I was raring to go!

I'm really pleased to share that I drafted the design for my public art project I'm going to reveal in Seattle in a couple of weeks.

I've had this idea for a while to do a public art project. My concept was to create small pieces of art that I would distribute in a geographic area. I wanted to surprise people when they realized that they just found a piece of art. As a double surprise, I wanted it to contain an inspiring message, almost like a great fortune cookie. My idea is that someone randomly would find one of my pieces, be inspired, and take it home. Or give it away.

I'm going to Seattle for business in just a few days now, and I had begun to think I wasn't going to have time to do this project. But getting a prototype drafted is a huge step. Perhaps I won't have as many finished I was hoping, but I do believe I will be taking some with me to Seattle.

I decided this afternoon to skip the anonymous part of my idea. I'm going to put a website and a serial number on each piece of art, and have the web address take people to a specific post on this blog. I hope they will add a comment to the blog post including their art piece number, and a little bit of their story. I'm very excited to get a chance to hear back from people about this project. I had thought about launching a whole website, keeping it anonymous, but I just don't have the time to handle all of that right now. Maybe in the future.

So it's part art project, part sociology experiment, and a whole lot of fun for me. I hope you stick around to see what happens, too.