new new new

I have been gathering these bits and pieces, mostly from around my office. It's quite strange really. I don't know what has compelled me to pick them up, but they just seem to always catch my eye.
I had a 2am brainwave the other night.....why am I suddenly spotting these manufactured, circular, discarded objects on the ground and in gutters? It's a complete opposite to the pieces I have been picking up on my walks in the past, and this has been totally random. I haven't been in a location and decided to gather some objects. I have just been walking around, and things jump into my line of vision. I can't help myself picking them up. I try to do so discretely, but I am slowly accepting my jewellery-nerdiness, and all that comes with it. Anyway, onto the 2am brainwave, it was more like a train of thought that came to an interesting point...I am obviously in a new environment, so new objects are around me. And I guess I respond to that by picking certain ones up. I had been noticing all these little circular things when I was walking to and from my car. ALL THE TIME. One day I decided to start picking them up. Of course that day I didn't come across any. But since then I've been slowly gathering up a nice wee collection. So this year I have decided will be spent exploring these two opposites. The natural, organic pieces, and the mass produced, hard, man made pieces; and the sort of processes that relate to each of these. Hand making pieces, casting pieces, using plastics, using soft materials, using things that deteriorate?, mixing hand made and cast pieces.......
the list is endless. There are heaps of questions and ideas surrounding this that I need to discover and incorporate. So lots to do :)
One thing I know I have to do.....get DRAWING and MAKING!!!!!

A-into-G time.

It's already February and I have very little to show...not for long though. I feel like I am on the brink of a making frenzy....bring it on! I need some good enthusiastic, really engrossing creative moments!