Twyla Tharp reading

"Scratching is where creativity begins. It is the moment where your ideas first take flight and begin to defy gravity. If you try to rein it in, you'll never know how high you can go."

Scratching is a term that Tharp uses to describe the process of How not Where she gets her inspiration from, where her ideas stem from. I love the way she describes it, especially the part of scratching that I have quoted on the top of this entry from the reading. She first goes on to talk about BIG and little ideas, good and bad ideas in a way that is both obvious yet insightful. After that she goes on to explain her concept of scratching.
The definition I got from the passage on scratching is: every part of the the design process, not including actual physical work on the piece, is scratching. Scratching is the little ideas you get from your surroundings, the images that pop into your head when you see this or hear that, or even the feeling you get on a certain day. Your "journey" for inspiration is the idea of scratching.
For me, although the reading went on to talk about more things, scratching was the most important part. For senior studio I have struggled thinking of not what to do my art work on, but how to do it (how it should look, what materials etc...) But over the break I got a BIG idea, one that I consider a good idea, on how my piece should look. I took the quote from the passage that I put on top of this post there because I feel that I have scratched out an idea that can fly to the highest heights.