One afternoon he put a bag of popcorn in the microwave and ended up sketching all 310 kernels, one at time in descending order of size for a book called “Every Piece of Popcorn,” not that he sold many copies.
Jason Polan is putting every New Yorker on paper.
That’s over 8 million people, drawn on a sheet of paper in a notebook barely larger than your phone. Why is Jason Polan sketching out every New Yorker he sees? Why would a man spend a few hours of every single day to draw people ‒ whom he has never met ‒ into a notebook?
Jen Bekman, who runs a SoHo gallery as well as the website 20x200, thinks Polan is drawing for the sake of creativity. Polan is sketching because it’s something to do, a way to think different. Bekman says:
He reminds us by what he is doing every day that New York is place where you can choose to be bored but don’t have to be.
The same could be said for any place in the world, and anyone. You can choose to be bored, but you don’t have to be. Get creative.