Thoughts 1

After having to focus on having a solid conceptual idea for Thesis, and the pressure to continue this at Chautauqua, I took the liberty to just make and not over think while at the Tileworks. This decision was one of the best I could make. Yes, I still had all the same thoughts along with new ones hanging in the background, but I didn't let them hold me back during my making process.
Since I haven't narrowed down one streamlined idea yet, I plan to keep an updated list of what I'm thinking about, how these thoughts work together, in hopes of coming up with something coherent along the way...

-Pattern, repetition, cycles- within the everyday, within a lifetime, in nature, in the manmade 
-Contrasting elements-surfaces, colors, materials, ideas
-How we view life and death
    positively and open
    negatively and with distain
-The idea of beauty in the everyday
   conversely, the ugly in the everyday
-Why we feel the need to point out the ugly, isn't it a mere deviation from beauty?
-The subjectiveness that surrounds us
-Realizing my truth within this
-Energy
      it is everything we are, what we do, how we think and move
      the ability to channel this energy
-Memory
      the methods we use to remember and hold on to a moment in time
      how we look back on these times