You can consider the following questions:
Do you think your mind works as Kirby Ferguson outlines in his short video - http://everythingisaremix.info ?
How do ideas ‘occur’ for you?
Do they come ‘fully formed’?
Do they change as you work on them and refine them?
Are they ‘foggy and indistinct’ and then become more definite as you work with them?
In class some people said that it was like they had a ‘pile’ of things to refer to (like a mental library or repository of memories and experiences) which they ‘picked up’ an idea from. One person likened this to a ‘claw’ from a fairground machine that grabs a prize from a pile.
It was also suggested by more than one student that it helps if there is a strong ‘trigger’ as well as the original task information.
Here are some resources to aid your reflection:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151119104105.htm
https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newCT_88.htm
Does this article support Ferguson’s theory? https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2015/05/researchers-tie-unexpected-brain-structures-to-creativity.html
Your reflection can include reference to other sources and can be as ‘creative’ as you like – the goal is to try and be conscious of how you as an individual ‘get’ new ideas when faced with a task.
It is then a great time to look again at the photograph you have chosen and to think about what you do with the source image to make an art work that utilises visual metaphor to communicate ‘layered, Subtle, complex’ meaning.
Thinking About Thinking- Reflection
Personally, I think that I get my ideas from my experiences, what I've seen, felt, read, watched, listened to, tasted, cooked so mainly what I've been exposed to. So basically like everything I've ever experienced is waiting in my head to turned into ideas and everyday I get more pre-ideas stored up just waiting to be discovered and used. Usually my ideas never come fully formed, it takes time for them to develop and sometimes I am very indecisive so I have to go through a lot of versions of the ideas before I can finally decide.
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"As an artist, the key is to stay open to the universe. You never know what might inspire you." (Ricer Clegg, 2015). I read an article from the The New Yorker about how ideas are in everything and everywhere and it us up to us as artists to grab them and use them.