I once read that the creative process is a lot about making non-trivial and interesting connections between different well established entities.

Recently I have embarked in a sort of journey of creating connections, only that one variable is fixed. Since I’ve been spending a lot of time running, I’ve been trying to write about different things that are somehow connected to running. And it turns out that to do so, you often need a certain amount of creativity.

To challenge myself, in one of my recent runs I thought, how I could create art while running. After spending time on it, in one of my longer runs, I still couldn’t come up with an idea how to accomplish this task. To give you a short overview about this issue, it’s very difficult to create art while running. You are alone with your thoughts, the scenery is constantly changing, your physical organs are pretty tied up with an energy consuming task and your hand isn’t stable. How the hell can you create art in such a situation?

But then I remembered Andy Warhol’s, wonderfully clever quote: “Art is anything you can get away with“.

That sentence suddenly seemed to open new possibilities.

So I came up with the following idea. In my next run, I will create art. Coming back to the connection theme: I will connect running with 4 satellites, a smart phone and the Internet.  I will do so by having my GPS enabled tracking software on me, while running in a shape that will resemble the word “Art” thus…. literally creating art.

This is the result:



The more detailed result can be viewed here: http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/3279608

I wonder if Andy would have let me get away with this one. Realistically speaking, most likely not.