What do you do when you cannot do? You doodle.
Photos: BOAZ ZIPPOR
As Covid-19 put a halt on many projects and stopped personal collaborations, Boaz Zippor, internationally acclaimed artist and creative extraordinaire living in Bangkok, found himself bored and tired of climbing the walls of his studio.
His solution was simple, do what you can, and what you can always do is just take the old-fashioned road of pen and paper, and doodle. As simple as that, he just doodled away the days. And he puts his doodling art in the exhibition titled "Doodle Distractions" on display at 6060 Arts Space on Pradiphat 21.
Doodling is not drawing. It is not sketching. It is doodling, an almost mindless Zen-like process of burning time, passing time, doing something, anything -- without a goal, without a plan, without being too serious.
Zippor, a veteran of the design, advertising and branding industry, and famous photographer to the stars, now retired, says the doodling was indeed a therapeutic process for him.
Photos: BOAZ ZIPPOR
"The daily doodle project started as therapy, art therapy, an antidote to boredom, medicinal doodling, but after a while it has become an addiction," he said.
"There is a famous exercise for writers and creatives, where you start each day by writing two pages full of thoughts, without editing, without thinking too much, just starting the morning with pouring words on paper, black on white, just emptying your brain onto the page. It seems to help a lot of people be more focused and feel better in general.
"The daily doodle project started like that, but in a graphic way, filling up two A4 pages with sketches and drawings as a therapeutic process, as an exercise, as a habit."
For Zippor, these two pages grew to 10 or even 20 every day. Some would say he has developed a doodling problem, but there are no support groups for that.
This exhibition is the culmination of this process, or at least a small part of it, because in the past year Zippor has accumulated over 2,000 pages, and it would have been clearly impossible to exhibit them all. On show are around 100 chosen pages for this project.
Photos: BOAZ ZIPPOR
"Doodle Distractions" will be at 6060 Arts Space on Pradiphat 21 from Sept 3-22 with the opening ceremony on Sept 3 at 6pm. At the opening ceremony, an array of doodles will be available for sale with all profits going to the Gift of Happiness Foundation to help to promote equal access to education, entertainment, resources and opportunities for all children in Thailand.
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Photos: BOAZ ZIPPOR