A couple years back, I took an art class that focused on creative problem solving. It turned out to be a rather scary deep look into each students psyche.

From the exercises we did—mainly drawing representations of problems, then redrawing them or adding solutions—it was possible to see inside the minds of the artists a little bit. I came away with some startling insights.

So today when I was feeling sort of stuck and unfocussed, I decided to draw out one of my problems and see what I came up with. Although I didn’t really find a solution, I did make a pretty picture: