Unlimited Canvas

I have two friends that create continuously. One confines her canvas to no more than an 8x10 inch rectangle. The other uses walls. Inside or outside. Bricks, sheet rock, painted or not.

So what's the difference? Is it the tangibles? The colors, the size, the imagery, the message? What makes something resonate versus easily ignored? Why do some things appeal while others do not?

Maria Montessori (Italian physician and educator 1870-1952) used the term "extensions" to recognize how individuals continue to explore, test and extend imagination as a result of the practical application of concepts (language, math, science, ethics in the form of peace!). When a child is introduced to a "work" the learning does not end with the lesson itself, as though the result was the goal (a static object). Rather, once the lesson is mastered the result is a competency (a dynamic resource) that extends possibility.

When defined as a resource the canvas and arising result are always subject to a new possibility. In this state learning never ceases. Rather, it inspires the next thought. Then the next...and next...and...you get it. In this instance, as it relates to ideas & imagination it might just be that size is of no consequence when unlimited is the boundary.