The Sketchbook Project | 500 sketchbooks sent around the world | One gallery show:
We’re sending out 500 sketchbooks. You fill them and send them back. Then we throw a show with all of the books plastered across our wall, free for people to flip through.
My old hometown of Decatur is host to this innovative fundraiser. You send them $13, they send you a Moleskine to fill with depictions of your fears, drawings, sketches, words, photos; you send it back and they display it.
I’m tempted just to have a goal/assignment to work on. I feel the energy but no direction and a lot of other distractions that make it easy to put things off.
Whaddaya think? 9 books left: are you in? Is your fear having to fill a book with art? (Hmm, there’s a powerful idea there: what scares people more than a blank page that they have to fill?) Wanna spot me the $13?
Hmm, they’re just a mile and a half from where we lived when my children were born.