I wasn't sure where to begin on this; I mean, when someone says, "Doodle! Now!" it's kind of difficult to think of something. So I started with just making S shapes since we're concentrating on the 4 Ss. Mentally I repeated the words serendipity, synchronicity, spontaneity, and surrender over and over to myself. And when I started writing them, I found that, as per the norm, my terrible spelling got in the way. But then I decided to go with it (surrender) and found that I if I spelled the words phonetically, they took on their own lives. "Sarendipity" is Sara, one of those birds that perches on the rim of a glass and then dips it's head into water. "Sirrender" is a posh English gentleman, complete with a monocle. "Spawntiaity" is a rock in a pond that gives life to ideas. And "Sinkronicity" is a boat that goes below the deep over time. [Located on far left of image]
I continued with the S shapes and kept repeating the words over and over in my brain (and maybe even out loud). Synchronicity stood out to me so I made a clock with numbers all over the page (spontaneity).
So how did these 4 Ss help my creative process? Well, like I said, when I surrendered to the fact that my spelling leaves much to be desired, I came up with four doodles that had personality. I wanted a clock on the page so I made it happen and then scattered the numbers around haphazardly. To me that showed spontaneity. Synchronicity came through in the fact that a lot of the doodles had an S shape so they fit together. And serendipity sort of just arched over the whole paper in that when I let things happen, they happened.
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