it is the question that haunts any maker or artist. It is the type of question that opens up the imagination to new possibilities, and is one of the most important questions to ask if the work is to move on. It invites the promise of new ways of seeing things, new objects, and new pleasures. But it is also a disruptive question, almost violent if it is allowed to take its course to conclusion. For people who create (be it pots, sculpture, a new business, or even legislation) this question causes an upheaval that throws them, and most probably those around them, into a state of flux.Of course the question of 'what if must not be mistaken for the doing of anything. It is just the necessary precursor of the doing; it is a 'playing with' or a mulling over. But the question opens up the way for the doing to be possible, and thereby the realisation of something new. It pierces the barrier of the normal, the safe, the familiar, and is the springboard from which the maker jumps into the flux of improvisation.
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