Intuitive Making  July 2014                 Omega Staff Workshop            Five  30-minute meetings
           

Short encounters in hunting and gathering consciousness;

Way stations where you can get reminded of your capacities as a Maker: the birthright activity of all humans. 

We know how to do things, make things. It’s hard-wired into us. 

A browsing, grazing activity with found materials emphasizing intention and practice over access to the  

       “right” tools or materials.

 

Bring a knife

Look through  www.danielmack.com,

Bring something to share.

 
Elements of Intuitive Making      
Human nature loves heartily well-balanced irregularity and longs for it in life, in character.     Calvert Vaux 
=   linear and non-linear Geometry + Krafting + Natural Materials,
=   affinity of opposites: geometry/nature, order/chaos, mater/pater, understructure/overstructure,
=   The Need, the Intention, The Hunt, Making, Moving Along.  Spiral approach to revisit refresh
=   simple understructure + interesting feature, a copy, interpretation, homage of something else.
=   an attitude, a mirror, a window into  our themes, Needs,  mortality, transience
 
Intuitive Making Activities: cards, carving, assemblage, arrangements, gifts
Woods Walks       Watching people     Looking at images/books    Make Boats/Lake      Totem Animals?
Collecting Materials    Field Trips?    Visiting Sawmills    Land-Based play     Haiku/Senru Poetry
Mud Drawing       Dancing with Sticks        Make “Smalls”/Utensils    Make/Give Gifts   Make Kinetics
Mache Objects   Collaborate, Assist, Be Assisted  
Surrealist/Alchemical Exercises in Accident, Coincidence, Dissolving-Coagulating   
 

Our Needs? 

for Wonder (awe, mystery, “feeling in”) to BE (just BEING

for Dexterity (transforming, hand-spirit, Infinite Play), to DO

for Stories (how you fit into the world),  how you Belong, Provide, Dominate and Submit.

for the Organic/Sensual/Feral/Carnal, Risk, Danger,

 

 
Visitors to be alert for:
Karmic:  Your family:  who visits you ??    Who are you Building What For?    Why? 
Emotional:  Moods: frustration, slow, fast, Memorable Encounters with people,
Inferiores:  the rest of the clan, the gremlins, the preferred, deferred, denied s’elfs,
In Dreams Coincidences, Accidents
Encounters with The Elements: fire, earth, water, air, moon, rain, cold, sweat, sun, smell, noise, movement
What Creatures Appear?:  Totem Animals, Birds, Insects, Afflictions?
 
Local Points of Interest       for Side Trips, Wandering, Erring
Near-by Sawmills: 889 8252, 868 7566, 889 4193,473 2325  Larry 914 275 5804 
Hudson River       Driftwood Scavenging   Rhinecliff Train Sta Parking Lot   both far far ends
Rhinebeck, NY     Warren Tool  carving tools  845 876-7817  9G just before Rt 9  Williams Lumber, Rt 9
Millbrook, NY      Innisfree Garden, Wing Castle… Stone Castle from recycled Materials   
                              Flagler Arboretum and Institute for Ecosystem Studies
Wassaic, NY        Stone beehive Kilns, Deep Hollow Rd and Rt 22,
Cornwall, NY        Storm King Art Center Andy Goldsworthy’s Wall that Went for a Walk
                              HH Nature Museum, Dan’s Grasshopper Grove and Art In The Wild