That's not to say that some of my suns are not aesthetically driven (What can I say, I love a good symmetrical logo-sue me)." I try to spend more time on the idea than the execution of the design. "I draw fast, creating thumbnail sketches, exploring the concept and composition. "I start every sun with good old pencil and paper," he adds, stressing that he does his best thinking with his right hand. "How can I apply meaning in pictures or use this vessel (the sun) to pour meaning into it?" he'd ask himself. "It injected me with a little hope each and every week it really has made me look at things with a more positive lens."Īnd seeing as he creates logos, brand systems and strategies for a living, it's no surprise that Tad approached this activity like he was developing a brand. "This project has given me so much," he says. He enjoyed it so much that he whipped up a sun in one form or another every Sunday morning from then on out. With no rules, no client expectations, and no creative brief, the simple act of drawing a sun made Tad feel a bit better about himself and his craft. It was then that he started designing a sun for himself and nobody else. Making art had always been therapeutic for me I needed to find that again." "I really needed to get back to making things I loved and remind myself how much I truly love to make. "We as people tend to find joy when we are doing something we love," he explains. That's when he realised he needed to reconnect with his love for design by experimenting and playing. He likes to draw, he likes to paint, he likes to play,” he says.After heading to the studio one Sunday morning in2015 to get a head start on his work, Tad found himself stalling, gazing out of the window, and watching the sunrise. “There have been several instances when I’ve involved him. Two years ago, Tad and Jessica introduced another son into the project, with the birth of their first child. “Finding moments where you can connect with people in your life that you love is always important.” “These little objects we created are things I’m going to hang on to for my entire life,” says Carpenter. His mother is a fiber artist who created a hooked rug based on his design as well as a plush toy that Carpenter took with him to Singapore, photographing it with the people he met on the trip. Jessica documents many of the weekly suns. Carpenter’s wife, father and mother are all artists. SUNday SUNS has become a collaborative effort. “When you start working with your hands, sometimes your brain can shut off a little bit and not shut off in a bad way, but shut off in a way that it can kind of create a quiet moment for you, which I think in this day and age we need more moments where we aren't just inundated with things all the time." I think as we grow up, as we get older, as adults, we forget how important play is in all of our lives,” he says. “Dedicating time to play, I think, is so incredibly important. When he’s making his suns, he can just create something fun. “I thought I could do this for a month, or two months, three months, maybe, but now we are at six and a half years, three hundred thirty some straight weeks and it’s so much a part of my practice now, mentally and just creatively,” says Carpenter. He starts each sun with pencil to paper, and each evolves from there, taking form as drawings, paintings, papier mache sculptures, wood carvings, blankets, hooked rugs, paper cuttings, posters and more. “It’s this wonderful meditative pause for myself to create and make and not be too hung up on if it’s perfect or not perfect,” he says. That first one was a fresh-faced, sort of gear-shaped pink sun with a sweet benign smile.Īrt, says Carpenter, is a wonderful form of therapy. Carpenter says, “It’s a pretty loosey, goosey vague concept … the sun can mean so many things to so many people.” He thought about the source of light and drew a sun. He realized that something had to change, asking himself, "'Can I surround myself with enough positivity that I start to find myself coming out of this dark place that I was in?'” One particular Sunday morning, he woke up early, intending to work on a client project and uldn’t. “I found myself in 2015 in a place where I was just kind of burnt out and down on just kind of everything I was working on,” says Carpenter. Tad Carpenter Tad Carpenter in his Crossroads studio.
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