Scratching, by Twyla Tharp

To Twyla Tharp, Scratching is to come up with the foundations of a piece of work, to find ideas that launch her pieces though studying others, to improvise. Through looking through everything she has, Twyla scratches ideas. The ideas and methods that I see myself using from Twyla Tharp are looking at my surrounding, and what I already have, to create an art piece. I have already done a little "scratching" before, however I just call it brainstorming (from lack of a better term). In the studio, scratching would be to look at the people around you, see how they are working, and individually look through your own work, own space, own organization and gather ideas from the way you use your space. Assuming that studios are usually messy (and usually they are) it is safe to think that there will be a lot of mess, and paint, and clay, and cardboard or whatever materials you work with. taking the mess and using it it an advantage, because any of that "mess" can create ideas, or how Twyla calls it, Scratching.