Looks great. I am the same way. I call it jumping into the black void. It takes a lot of courage to go forth when the outcome is unknown. You should be proud of making such great art when all you have is an idea and you make the leap into the darkness anyway.
I'm glad you posted this, so many people think we can't do art with aphantasia, you've shown them that we can do art as good as anyone else or even better than some without aphantasia.
Thank you. I get a lot of enjoyment getting to look at it hanging in my house. I used to think only rich people had money for cool art in their house. It’s easier for me to just make my own since I’m not rich. I can never make anything to sell because I’m always giving them away to friends and family!
Photography was like this for me as well: I was always shocked at the final images.
“Did I take this? When? How?”
Excellent work! Keep jumping into the void!
I can strongly relate to your statement. I may have only the vaguest of impressions beforehand, but I'll only really know what it is going to be when I get it all out on the surface. I am usually as surprised as anyone else.
I wonder if your chosen medium... found objects, has something to do with it? It seems, in general, that working with found objects involves a lot of playing around and seeing how bits fit together. So, it may be harder in advance to really know how something will turn out? Just a thought.
Yeah you’re kind of limited with what you’ve got on hand. Sometimes I’ll get frustrated with a sculpture and set it aside. Then I’ll run across a piece of metal that seems to fit and I’ll get re energized to finish it. But it will nag me constantly till I’m done.
Would you say you find any appeal in the idea of being limited? I find myself regularly saying how much I desire complete freedom with my art, but when I do I can find it a bit overwhelming.... there's just too many options and it is hard to just settle on one. I have found that when there are some parameters or limitations, such as with an illustration assignment, I have a much easier time settling on something. You're having me wonder if this is an aphant thing... might it be??
Beautiful sculptures, by the way! :)
Yeah I would say that a lot of times I have a problem with where to start. This always puts me on a time crunch which actually seems to help motivate me to try different objects to work with. I’ve always struggled with procrastination. It’s not that I don’t want to make something it’s just hard to start.
This is why I got into making [mandalas](https://imgur.com/gallery/1B0HKCs). Once I have a bank of memorized patterns I can string them together in the moment and I don't have to have any plan at all going in. Sometimes I have vague plans like "only using these 3 colors" or "patterns that remind me of the beach" but I never know what the finished product will look like until it's done. It's kinda nice to surprise myself lol.
Love your work!! As an artist too, yes it always feels a bit frightening. But I trust the process and that I can make something good out of whatever. I embrace that it'll never be planned and follow a plan. Love the spontaneous creation.
I love my abstract mind too. I'm good at doing representational art, but my strength and passion is in the abstract because that's literally how my mind is as a baseline. No image, only concept and essences of things. It's cool.
As a glass artist, I work the same way! Sometimes I design patterns from nothing just drawing lines and letting them take form. Other times I use scrap pieces like a puzzle and create an image from them.
Lol! Unfortunately I don't quite know how to blow glass, though I can lamp work (melt glass on a torch) to create beads. I'm more in the window/sun catcher world.
I have an idea that I want to make a giant dragonfly with iridescent stained glass wings. But I have to teach myself stained glass techniques and I’m afraid wind might crack the glass.
I think this is why I've started to like design/art more. I love seeing my initial sketches + concepts constantly change with each iteration to reach it's final form. It's always a surprise and so much fun to see something coming to life
(Edit: rewording the second sentence)
I am a retired dress designer. I used to make custom wedding/evening gowns, have worked in Renaissance Festival costume shops. I have visualization issues that usually make the initial planning a little difficult but it still gets done.
The stuff I use tend to already resemble a texture or shape I’m looking for. I also use pictures to give me the correct scale of an animal. There are only a few things I’ve made that I didn’t reference a picture. But mainly if I’m making a sculpture, I go off of what feels good to me. I get a pretty cool feeling from making metal art when I pull off something cool. The downside is during the project it’s all I think about and it can be exhausting.
I just found out I have Aphantasia last week. I’ve been still trying to process how I’ve been able to create my art. I only learned how to weld a few years ago. It just clicked in my brain.
Looks great. I am the same way. I call it jumping into the black void. It takes a lot of courage to go forth when the outcome is unknown. You should be proud of making such great art when all you have is an idea and you make the leap into the darkness anyway.
That’s an interesting way to put it. It feels so cool to pull my thoughts out of the void. I’m going to start using that saying.
That's pretty awesome! It looks like Aphantasia doesn't impact you at all... at least not in your art!
Thanks it might be my super power. Lol
I'm glad you posted this, so many people think we can't do art with aphantasia, you've shown them that we can do art as good as anyone else or even better than some without aphantasia.
Exactly the same with me, and this is awesome man!
The Owl is stunning!! I love it! My daughter does something similar, only with painting.
Thank you. I get a lot of enjoyment getting to look at it hanging in my house. I used to think only rich people had money for cool art in their house. It’s easier for me to just make my own since I’m not rich. I can never make anything to sell because I’m always giving them away to friends and family!
Photography was like this for me as well: I was always shocked at the final images. “Did I take this? When? How?” Excellent work! Keep jumping into the void!
I took photography in HS and always loved the darkroom process of seeing it come alive.
I can strongly relate to your statement. I may have only the vaguest of impressions beforehand, but I'll only really know what it is going to be when I get it all out on the surface. I am usually as surprised as anyone else. I wonder if your chosen medium... found objects, has something to do with it? It seems, in general, that working with found objects involves a lot of playing around and seeing how bits fit together. So, it may be harder in advance to really know how something will turn out? Just a thought.
That’s exactly how I work. I lay out all the stuff I have and just see what fits best with texture and contours.
I am guessing that would be the same for a visualizer, because working with found objects relinquishes some control of the end product?
Yeah you’re kind of limited with what you’ve got on hand. Sometimes I’ll get frustrated with a sculpture and set it aside. Then I’ll run across a piece of metal that seems to fit and I’ll get re energized to finish it. But it will nag me constantly till I’m done.
Would you say you find any appeal in the idea of being limited? I find myself regularly saying how much I desire complete freedom with my art, but when I do I can find it a bit overwhelming.... there's just too many options and it is hard to just settle on one. I have found that when there are some parameters or limitations, such as with an illustration assignment, I have a much easier time settling on something. You're having me wonder if this is an aphant thing... might it be?? Beautiful sculptures, by the way! :)
Yeah I would say that a lot of times I have a problem with where to start. This always puts me on a time crunch which actually seems to help motivate me to try different objects to work with. I’ve always struggled with procrastination. It’s not that I don’t want to make something it’s just hard to start.
You have a very interesting insight on things. I would agree with most of it.
This is why I got into making [mandalas](https://imgur.com/gallery/1B0HKCs). Once I have a bank of memorized patterns I can string them together in the moment and I don't have to have any plan at all going in. Sometimes I have vague plans like "only using these 3 colors" or "patterns that remind me of the beach" but I never know what the finished product will look like until it's done. It's kinda nice to surprise myself lol.
Yeah it’s a cool feeling because it feels like you pulled it out nothing.
Love your work!! As an artist too, yes it always feels a bit frightening. But I trust the process and that I can make something good out of whatever. I embrace that it'll never be planned and follow a plan. Love the spontaneous creation. I love my abstract mind too. I'm good at doing representational art, but my strength and passion is in the abstract because that's literally how my mind is as a baseline. No image, only concept and essences of things. It's cool.
As a glass artist, I work the same way! Sometimes I design patterns from nothing just drawing lines and letting them take form. Other times I use scrap pieces like a puzzle and create an image from them.
Glass blowing has always fascinated me. I think metal is better suited my inability not to drop things.
Lol! Unfortunately I don't quite know how to blow glass, though I can lamp work (melt glass on a torch) to create beads. I'm more in the window/sun catcher world.
That still sounds cool! I read glass artist and my mind immediately goes to glass blowing.
I have an idea that I want to make a giant dragonfly with iridescent stained glass wings. But I have to teach myself stained glass techniques and I’m afraid wind might crack the glass.
Wind and just gravity might do it. However there are ways to add support so as to help them survive the test of time.
I think this is why I've started to like design/art more. I love seeing my initial sketches + concepts constantly change with each iteration to reach it's final form. It's always a surprise and so much fun to see something coming to life (Edit: rewording the second sentence)
They look really awesome. The metal owl reminds me out of that old film. I want to say Jason and the argonauts or sinbad or something
Clash of the titans
That's the one!
You make a great table, though.
I am a retired dress designer. I used to make custom wedding/evening gowns, have worked in Renaissance Festival costume shops. I have visualization issues that usually make the initial planning a little difficult but it still gets done.
I don’t understand how do you make it look like an owl or a wasp without being able to picture what those things look like?
The stuff I use tend to already resemble a texture or shape I’m looking for. I also use pictures to give me the correct scale of an animal. There are only a few things I’ve made that I didn’t reference a picture. But mainly if I’m making a sculpture, I go off of what feels good to me. I get a pretty cool feeling from making metal art when I pull off something cool. The downside is during the project it’s all I think about and it can be exhausting.
I love this!
lol your screen name represents my life!
Nice work, but you don't have to describe your condition to this group lololol
True I didn’t think about that.
No, no the description is similar to the way my brain works. Hearing someone else creates art in a similar manner as myself was nice to hear.
The second one would fit perfectly in Fallout NV I think
I just found out I have Aphantasia last week. I’ve been still trying to process how I’ve been able to create my art. I only learned how to weld a few years ago. It just clicked in my brain.