Keep on Making, Keep on Moving!

Len Lye believed the the beginning of creativity is Dance. He was also inspired by the movement of clouds over Wellington, even trying to capture this movement in his drawings. 'All of a sudden it hit me why not just movement? If there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can’t there be figures of motion?' Of course he went on to develop kenetic sculpture and is one of the early innovators of animation. We are capturing some of the Len Lye spirit, moving, spinning, twisting, bounding, bouncing, inviting the ideas to flow. It's interesting to see the energy we can tap into when dancing. The energy, the laughter it provokes, the joy!

Of course this creative flow has a purpose. We have started shaping an outline for our Arts Celebration piece and many of these spontaneous ideas will feed into it. More on this in the coming weeks.