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Think Tank Leakage

 

Think Tank Leakage

A business call that takes too long. A meeting that's rambling. Waiting for the copy machine. There must have been times when an odd doodle showed up and grew into something collecting, something expressing.

Here's an idea -- the next time you reach for your device to idly scroll, instead pick up a pen and some paper and doodle. It does not need to be anything at all. Doodle. Poke it. Prod it. Dress it up in your favorite doll house. 

You will not have wasted your time.



Think Tank Leakage - collage/mixed media/sketch by douglas brent smith, 1997. 

From Journal #32, Secret Change Agent

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