How to Be an Explorer of the World by Keri Smith

Still, I like making stuff up and I’m happy to write a story about a magical pine cone. I’ve been watching the Harry Potter movies recently - maybe that’s why this appeals to me.

A travel stone.Įxploration #32: Collect objects for their potential magic quality.

I collect snow globes from each of the cities I visit, but I think I’ll collect something natural from now on. Let’s take selfies, home.Įxploration #30: Collect objects that tell a story of your travels. It keeps me warm every day, and I just ignore it. I don’t think I give it the time it deserves. Alternatively, document the corners of your home. So this speaks to me.Įxploration #18: Document part of a building that most people ignore. I’ll pick a place and keep you updated, stealth readers.Įxploration #13: Document lettering you find in the world.

And bring back a memory from the past.Įxploration #12: Write down fifty things about one of the following: a trip to the library, a trip to the grocery store, a walk in your neighbourhood. Find colours you respond to in the world and attempt to match them using the chips. I like the idea of an “experience log” though.Įxploration #7: Collect paint chips from a hardware store. I keep a journal and I take it on my travels. I will attempt to complete the following:Įxploration #2: Collect experiences on your travels in an “experience log”. Inspired, I made a list of my favourite explorations from the book. The book is beautifully compiled in a way that allows you to engage with it - scribble and record, write and draw - a portable life museum with existing log books and spreadsheets to begin observing, collecting, analysing, comparing and noticing the small details we often miss on a daily basis. Your mission is to document and observe the world around you as if you’ve never seen it before. A wonderful compilation of 59 novel assignments (called explorations) to help us record the world in more detail, engage with everything around us, and boost the creative process. How To Be An Explorer Of The World by Keri Smith is a metaphorical suitcase for the creative soul. Glued to computer and TV screens, we have forgotten how to look at the natural world, the original instructor on how to be curious about detail - Jennifer New.Įverything is interesting. Close observation of a single subject, whether it is as tiny as Pasteur’s microbes or as great as Einstein’s universe, is the kind of work that happens less and less these days.

How to Be an Explorer of the World by Keri Smith