The Halo Effect

Joe Brubaker uses drawing to help him figure out how he is going to assemble found materials in his figurative sculpture. He says "The individual creative process generates a 'halo' effect that is more significant than the individual creative act."

I bought his book "Somnambulists," and enjoy studying it to try to find clues to Brubaker's creative process. I can only guess at it. But I have begun keeping a box in the garage where I stash odd hunks of metal and wood and twisted wire found on my daily hikes on Eastern Sierra range land. A sketchbook will someday help me figure out what I am meant to do with it all.