creativity on demand

the local t.v. crew was here this morning filming. this in not the first time i have been filmed. it is the fourth. each time, we forage, we talk about STILL, and then there comes a moment when the producer says..”let’s see you make a photo.” UGH. i hate designing on demand. too much pressure. my mind shuts down. typically i play for 10 or 20 minutes; i try spills, i try patterns, i try line-ups, i push, i tear, i pile…i rarely sit down and know exactly what i am going to make. so when the videographer says “now start arranging” i freeze. anyway, this is what i made today. on demand. under pressure. and, low and behold, i rather like it. i think the arrangement dignifies this lowly roadside weed. now i am going to go put my feet up on the deck and have a glass of wine. i feel i have earned it.

ohhh by the way, according to wiki:

Knapweed was rated in the top five for most nectar production (nectar per unit cover per year) in a UK plants survey. It also placed second as a producer of nectar sugar per floral unit, among the meadow perennials, in another study in Britain.

amazing. now that i know that, knapweed just became one of my favorite weeds.

knapweed flowers (Centaurea nigra)