“What happens between the idea and the product?”
Pocket Notes is a project about compiling ideas. Their focus is not on the destination, but the journey; it is not the finished product, but the in-between stages. What results is the documentation of the creative processes of various artists and thinkers. Notes are scrawled in Moleskines and on loose sheets of paper. They consist of tables and graphs, drawings and words, underlines and arrows. They tell stories of carefully plotted ideas and ideas that strike when you least expect them.
In short, “Pocket Notes is about the texture of process, the frayed and loose ends, the unfinished, and seeing how artists work with and/or through an idea.”
Issue 2 is currently out, and they are accepting scans of handwritten notes and other types of notes as submissions for Issue 3. Pocket Notes encourages artists and thinkers to include a discussion of context and medium while completing the submission process.
