Art, Lights, and a Festive Night
Celebrate Riverside’s vibrant art scene with free gallery access and a special photo show, all while taking in the magic of the Festival of Lights.
A prompt to encourage your practice of creativity this week from Riversider and local author Larry Burns.
Do you need a low stress way to include seven minutes of creative contemplation into your week? Consider this your helpful nudge towards a slightly more creative life. If it helps, come back every week for a quick hit of creative contemplation. Each week I’ll share a new nudge. It will include a Thing (T), a Place (P), and a Sense(S) for your focus, a TPS creative nudge.
Welcome back from last week’s luminous light bulb play date. Did you light up your night with creative delight? Whether you wrote a warm and reflective poem, created complicated bulb art, or composed a catchy song while stealing intellectual property like a GPT, I hope you made something to glow about using everyday objects.
Just as light bulbs have illuminated our creative paths, this week, we’re turning our attention to another versatile and indispensable item: a roll of tape. Tape, in all its forms—from Scotch tape to duct tape to packing tape—is a staple in our homes and offices. It’s useful for mending, sticking, bundling, and crafting.
There’s a tape for every occasion, from fixing a torn photograph to cordoning off a crime scene! Its ubiquity makes it a perfect object for our creative exploration. Let’s see how we can use tape to stick our imaginations together and craft something unique.
Embrace the playful, the practical, and the imaginative, and let these activities carry you through the week with a fresh perspective. Tape is a simple yet powerful tool that helps us mend, build, and express ourselves in countless ways. Its flexibility and strength make it a perfect medium for artistic and functional projects alike.
Did you know that enough Scotch tape is produced each year to wrap around the world hundreds of times? This remarkable fact highlights the ubiquity and utility of tape in our daily lives. Imagine the endless creative possibilities if we tapped into just a fraction of that potential.
This column was written with the help of a customized GPT from OpenAI. If I can make one, so can you!
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