On the drive to work this morning, my husband and I were discussing what separates us from the monkeys. Central to our discussion was the human imagination. While other animals can be problem solvers, humans have the capacity to imagine problems that don't yet exist. We have the imagination to think up things that have little bearing on current realities. Thus we knew we could get to the moon long before we had the capability to do so. For much of human history people were punished for having ideas that were decades, and even centuries ahead of then modern thinking.
With this in mind, this morning I came across a piece of Doctor Who fan art by a blogger called EldalinSkywalker. She lambastes the idea that fan art has to be confined to mere two dimensional images and displays her own: A handmade Doctor Who chess set. Not perhaps as important as imagining that the sun is the center of the universe, but it is this idea of taking an idea in one medium and converting it to another, any other, that I love. To think beyond self imposed boundaries, to create from whatever inspires you. Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey and so forth.
I like to crochet, I adore the Wolfdreamer blog, where she creates Pokemon characters and other animated characters out of wool. I can't paint, I can't draw but I can imagine and I have other mediums to choose from. What's yours?
