/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4124265
I don't know if this will be useful to you, but here's a little something from me:
I've moved to another job (not art, but finance-related). New colleagues, new open space.
I noticed they had some promotional Rubik cubes on the shared desks. Not plain colored ones, but with actual images on the faces. Of course, no one there was able to solve them.
I had experience solving plain, classic cubes (long road trips on the backseat at a time when smartphones weren't a thing...), so I gave them a shot. I was goof, except for the centers. You don't care for the center on plain classic ones but when they have images, the center's orientation matter.

This is the point I'm getting to: to move the center in the right position, I visualized in my head the manipulations I would have to do with the cube, something I never did before (since the solving method I developped as a kid was a long trial-and-error process and not a conscious effort to solve it in my head).

So here is what I'm trying to say: your brain and ability to imagine rely on how familiar you are with the item you're trying to imagine, and manipulating said item, physicaly interacting with it, can help tremendously. I've taken that approach for a lot of other items since, and my ability to manipulate things in my mind grew a lot.

And the cube is still sitting on my desk.