One Idea, Many Minds

If you are ever in need of an inspiring push to get out of a creative rut, the classroom is the place to go, especially those that encourage variation in the end result. Fabiola Perez Ajates, (known simply as Fabi) encourages a broad range of expression in her classes, and she photographs and posts collages of them on her wonderful blog Con Tus Manos (With Two Hands). Just last week she posted many shots like these of her students’ little trinket bowls.

It’s obvious that Fabi encourages brave color combinations and individual ideas. Take a close look at the various choices the students made. The pieces are basically the same form, but color, textures, canes and the sculptural additions such as stands or handles are all handled quite differently. Find some applications that you like, and ask yourself if you could aim for something like that in some of your creative endeavors. Seeing the wide open possibilities in a group of unique, creative minds can really stretch your own creativity.

You can also see how she uses collaged images to promote her classes in this post here. If you want to skip the blog information (it has to be translated from the Spanish if you don’t speak it), you can see many of these same images on Fabi’s Flickr pages.

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