09/24/2026
Sensory Overload in the Olfactory and Gustational departments!
Pumpkin Pie coffee and Strawberry Shortcake v**e juice (4 pts Cake Batter:1 pt Strawberries A La Mode).
Ni****ne and caffeine help me stay focused in my artistic endeavors.
For the sensory aspect of Tactile, I utilize several different fidgets, including one that's made from polyresin, and it's an interlocking lattice of extra-wide pieces, that when allowed to sit at the normal shape form a circle of sorts, and when you press them down on the sides elongates itself and look something like a lightning bolt as it's imagined in "Clash of the Titans" . I also have a fidget that my good friend Darrin Webb made for me. It kind of looks like a plumbus from "Rick and Morty"! And then I have the classic fidget spinner, but it's a two-tine instead of three tines, and it's made of brass colored metal, but I believe it's aluminum. It spins effortlessly for long times and it's got a really cool set of interchangeable parts. Somewhere. All three of those assist me in kind of waking up my hands and figuring out what I want to do next by playing with them and getting different ideas.
Audio and video often go together, because one of my favorite pieces of media to consume while I'm creating is Pink Floyd's concert live at Pompeii and sometimes I like to watch David Gilmour's 2015 concert live at Pompeii. I really lean into it because it evokes things from the visual with the crazy displays of the original concert, and the lead up to it with pictures of the still bubbling parts of the volcanoes, paintings, and statues lost to time; The people frozen in pillars of ash.
What are your go-to sensory stimulators in your art practice?
