Creative project · March 2026
Beginner’s Mindset
Using invented and unconventional mark-making tools, we set out to show that creativity isn’t a skill to be mastered, but a mindset to be practiced.
What if we approached creativity with the very qualities it takes to be a beginner: patience, humility, openness and a willingness to experiment? Over four weeks we explored new tools, taught each other the techniques we’d found, and let the project find its own shape.
Murals of seemingly random marks slowly became a large, interactive storybook, A Tiger’s Tail, written together. Across eleven chapters, a tiger learns one quality of a beginner at a time as he travels through the jungle.
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Moments from Beginner’s Mindset
A Tiger’s Tail
Lines from the story
Such an exciting place to be! The possibilities are endless. I’ll just have to see where the road takes me.
What is it that I can share? I don’t know that I have enough. But I can share me, and maybe that’s enough.
In the end, the tiger learned that ‘Yes!’ was much more fun than ‘No.’
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