I barely draft drawings these days, but when I do it is just the best thing ever. Heard of being in a flow state? Well doing a drawing on AutoCad or probably any computer-aided design software puts one in a major state of flow. Or perhaps it is about the act of design or the act of building up a world a whole new creative world that’s inception is in one’s brain and magically enchanting it into reality is probably just as fun. But this entire morning as my fingers went snap snap on the keyboard and the brain kept conjuring up a dozen possibilities of what the room could be or what the piece of furniture could be, I didn’t realise the time slipping literally through my fingers. As an architectural apprentice I couldn’t wait for the day when I didn’t need to draft and could be the architect about town doing her thing, and now being that architect about town, I know the importance of a well-drawn drawing! Not to mention a correctly drawn drawing! A creative person I was told would never want to be a manager as managing people aka controlling people is as far from creativity as possible and I find that opinion rather true. The act of actually making something is a conversation between a real person and a possibility, possibilities which we know could be plenty.
That is the beauty of design and possibly of life that is so dynamic, the ever-changing nature of life should be celebrated and given its due. For all the times I wasn’t in a state of flow I wonder, what a waste of time! For now, there is AutoCAD and plenty of rooms to design. There is something so magical about AutoCAD, and Sketchup and Photoshop but the blank sheet of paper with a drawing instrument does trump it all, it is eternal enchanting as thoughts flow out of the minds into the white expanse.
Vedasri Siddamsetty 