Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work

built on and included as material. Lee once watched a design-

er at work whose uncanny prowess made clear the connection

between past exploration (practice) and Release:

The designer stood in the middle of a huge piece of muslin,

the backdrop curtain for an opera. He had a small drawing in

his hand, a cartoon, with a grid of squares lightly penciled

over it. The cartoon represented the city skyline he was to

paint on this enormous area. He had a piece of chalk jammed

in the end of a four-foot-long bamboo stick; he could draw on

the floor without bending over. Looking at the cartoon, he

positioned himself in the middle of the drop, put the chalk on

the ...