A Short, Inconclusive, and Sometimes Dissembling Excursion into Creative Musing in the Car

Abstract

Recounting a road trip to retrieve buried artworks, I focus on the interdigitation of interior imagery and exterior worlds passed at high speed. Time spent on long drives is a balance between alertness and poetic reverie. Whilst road travel is a capitalistic, spatially quick, carbon intensive, atomistic and colonialist process, the essentially untranscribable nonverbal ideation (as disparate notions swerve past each other), leads to prolific creative ideas. Verbalising and recording this state of mind captures only a limited sense of what is always being unearthed.