A creativity app for iOS, designed and built solo, from concept to App Store submission.
Every day you get one creative prompt, called an Alignment, along with three real artists who spent their careers on the same idea. You make something in response, keep it in your Constellation (a private archive of everything you've made), and if you feel brave, send it to the Observatory, where everyone else's work lives.
I wanted prompts with a bit more weight behind them. Finding out Agnes Martin painted horizontal lines for forty years makes a five minute exercise feel like you've joined a very long conversation.
Perception · 5 min
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
Francis Bacon
Today's prompt
Take the ugliest photo you can on purpose. Then find the one thing in it that's actually beautiful.
Your lineage
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Diane Arbus
Photography
Spent her career photographing people society ignored: circus performers, nudists, twins, people with disabilities, all with the same camera, the same eye and the same respect.
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John Cage
Composition
Wrote a piece of music that was four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence. The audience's coughs, shuffles and breathing became the composition.
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Agnes Martin
Painting
Painted almost nothing but horizontal lines on large square canvases for forty years, and said the paintings were about happiness and innocence.
