Sketches of Frank Gehry

I recently watched a documentary by Sydney Pollack, “Sketches of Frank Gehry“.

Now I am no architectural buff, I knew his buildings and knew he was famous but I didn’t really ever give his art much thought. What struck me most about this film is the look inside the path of an artist and dealing with the creative process and making it work both for yourself and to make some kind of living.

I love that Frank goes outside of the normal bounding boxes of what architecture should be and function, and he creates what he sees as right, what he is passionate about in that moment of creation. This was very inspirational as an up and coming designer myself struggling to find my way in this American commercial world of now now and cheaper.
The path of human beings is most often twisted in many ways but I think the path of an artist is almost staggered and at times it seems as the path is off the mark but then you find yourself a famous architect. Frank Gehry at one point in the movie said he could of been a pilot if someone had shown interest in him. That really our career paths are often quite fragile. I started out wanting to be a musician, then an Audio Engineer, then fell into working with computers, IT, then found the web, and now here in San Francisco I find an old love of movies but still in love with web design. Some how all fitting together into the same path, the same design sense even before I knew what that was.

Needless to say the movie gave me hope in my creative endeavors and was entertaining as well. A must see if you are an aspiring artist in any medium.