Permission Slip: complex color
Starting a new blog series here wherein I share with you specific insights that make it into my mind from building Halfland. As a long-term project, heck, even with a short-term project, keyword; project, the process of actually doing something will be transformational. And the things I'm gleaning can all be categorized as giving myself permission. Giving myself permission to do what I (somehow) know but discount for reasons. I'll be posting quick notes about these lessons, titled 'Permission Slips.' I've mentioned before how letting the hands work without the head was an accidental, powerful discovery. How I would be so exhausted, too tired to think, I'd sit back in my mind and watch as my hands made choices and grabbed at materials, carried out tasks that I didn't understand. After a while, I'd catch on and suddenly have a new thing accomplished for the film, in a wholly new way than I could have directly thought up. I adopted that way of working sin...
