Doodle adventure
Drawing with colored pencils on white card, 42 x 59.4 cm
How do you create from something personal, something that is coming straight from you? By interacting with various fabrics and materials i had, I ended up on a doodely path fueled by sensory curiosity.
Does doodling have anything to do with curiosity? Doodling is defined as "to scribble (more or less indifferent) figure, scribble" (drodle - Det Norske Akademis ordbok, n.å.). In English, the translation "doodle" comes from the verb "to doodle", which means to do nothing, when the attention is elsewhere but can also help to keep concentration on what is being said, for example in a teaching situation («Doodle», 2024). “Doodles” can also be translated as to make a doodle, and to throw
out ideas and thoughts in a less concentrated way («Category:doodle», 2020). Doodling drives curiosity in an open play with lines without goals in a free and exploratory form (Eftevaag, 2018). In Eftevaag's description, I understand the role of curiosity; In the unconscious lines, traces and ideas arise that curiosity can follow, not based on conscious thought, but based on a sensory attraction to form and lines. Situational factors such as maintaining concentration or boredom in different situations create visual variations that curiosity can follow further. Researcher Rhoda Kellog's (1898-1987) studies of children's drawings have shown that children are stimulated by the visual influence of their own lines (Kellogg, n.d.). 
Above is the process, from cutting selected fabric circles and draing out form these, to the final expression starting to appear. The choice of color gradients came intuitively, seeing how much nature forms seems to emerge into the visual expression, one shape gradually becoming the other, a desire to draw them with the colors of the light became a natural evolution of the expression. I conclude that the final piece is very much a sensory play with lines and forms, taking inspiration form daily hikes, and the textures i see around me in leaves, tree bark and rocks.
Sources:
Doodle. (2024). I Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doodle&oldid=1225633899
drodle—Det Norske Akademis ordbok. (u.å.). Sourced 29. mai 2024, from https://naob.no/ordbok/drodle#52860001
Eftevaag, A. (2018). Lek med blyanten: En undersøkelse om drodlingens betydning i skolen [Master thesis, Universitetet i Agder ; University of Agder]. https://uia.brage.unit.no/uia-xmlui/handle/11250/2660296
Kellogg, R. (u.å.). Rhoda Kellogg Child Art Collection. https://www.early-pictures.ch/kellogg/en/