All artists have their idiosyncrasies and weaknesses, their particular ways of getting snarled up. I have always loved the idea of Oblique Strategies, but I never felt that Eno’s and Schmidt’s original messages fit me very well. (You can shuffle through all the cards here.)
This was a printed deck of cards, each containing a short, cryptic, Zen-like koan meant to jostle the artist’s thinking and spark the creative process: “Use an old idea,” “Honour thy error as a hidden intention,” “Work at a different speed.” The idea was that the artist, frozen with indecision or out of ideas altogether, could draw a card at random, read the mysterious phrase, and somehow the creative machine would stir to life. In 1974, the musician Brian Eno and painter Peter Schmidt first published Oblique Strategies, a tool for unlocking creative blocks. Solving some problem - a scene that feels stagy or false, a knot in the plot that won’t come unknotted. Getting those first few words down on the blank page or screen.
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