I propped my latest RAZ (random act of Zentangle) up in the vitreous enamel roundel of the Jubilee Line Westbound platform, very late on this Friday evening. Though strictly it's almost Saturday. I hope it's been discovered by a curious someone needing a little bit of art (and a tiny Bijou snail) on the way home and not by the cleaners!
Update: I checked on Monday and it's not there, but as you whether it's found a good home, I may never know.
I wondered around with for a couple of days hoping for inspirationm and eventually opted to place it carefully in our buildings' pop-up bar.
Initially I propped it up against some beer bottles (not mine, still can't get my head around beer!). But then wondered if it looked too like a beer mat and would just be bussed with the empties. So finally left it on top of another clean table, hope someone found it before it was thrown away. I was feeling very summery creating this one, hopefully the weather will mirror that!
I carried it around for a couple of days not being inspired as to a good spot to plant it. But eventually I left my second Random act of Zentangle in our buildings shared sitting area/library. I figured if I sat down, in front of the view and read for a while next to one of the typewriter lamps I’d be in prime position. I could place my tangled tile nearby and grab a sneaky photo of it in situ, without hopefully drawing anyone’s attention to it. I am rather fond of this tile; it’s like a little sampler of some of my favourite tangles. And again, just because, I hid a little Bijou snail in the design.
As I stood up, someone spotted my soon to be vacant seat so started to walk over book in hand. Maybe she would find the RAZ, I hope so!
UPDATE: After several people on the Random Act of Zentangle Group Facebook page suggested they would have been tempted to place the tile appearing to come out of the rollers of the typewriter, I thought I would see if my RAZ had been snapped up a few days later. And it hadn’t, so I relocated it as suggested. Figuring this would either will make the RAZ more noticeable or else make it seem part and parcel on the typewriter lamp, and therefore to be left alone. One of my work colleagues mentioned that if she’d been around when I placed it on Monday she would have been hot-footing it up to the 14th floor to snap it up. When it had been there for several days and was still unclaimed; I dropped her a hint to that effect and she did indeed dash upstairs to see if it was still about. She was very pleased that my new positioning hadn’t been rumbled, and could add it to the tiles I have drawn for her previously. It does make me wonder how many RAZs are found and revered as we really hope they will be. Maybe in most cases we’ll never know. But whatever, I am working on a larger Zentangle inspired project at the moment, however once completed, I think I need to start work on a third RAZ and then have to think again for a suitable random place to leave it.
I joined a group called Random Acts of Zentangle who encourage you to leave a tangled tile for someone to randomly discover, with a little explanation of what it is on the reverse.
And after finding a suitable spot to for your little piece of art, you then photograph it in situ.
I chose a Circle Line Tube seat late at night for my first RAZ. I boarded the train where it looked pretty quiet, placed my RAZ propped up against the window above some empty seats. After my guerilla photography, I leapt off at the next station. I hope someone spotted it before they cleaned the carriages.
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