Coding: Acceptance Speech (Illustrator: Flotsam)

Attitudes
Imaginative/Creative
A14: Thinks his imaginings were “far more exotic than reality”
A24: Childhood story – compares arriving at the beach to arriving in another world
A26: Childhood story – compares island to an enchanted land
A29: Childhood story – wondered what other creatures were in the sea

Problem Solving/Experimentation
A30: Plan was not clear-cut
A31: Plan not clear-cut (figuring out what the object would be)
A32: Plan not clear-cut (decided on camera)
A33: Plan not clear-cut (character changed)
A34: Plan not clear-cut (didn’t want to change design)
A35: Started again from scratch
A36: Idea began to develop
A36: Experimented with images, multi-paneled pages – single full-page images, double page spreads
A47: Perfectionist (sleepless nights working on black lines around pictures)

Passionate about the Discovery Process

A20: Upset that artifact was destroyed
A21: Hopeful that another kid may find it
A22: Childhood flotsam story motivated his idea of child stumbling across an extraordinary object
A40: Scary to leave part of the process to spontaneity
A41: Must be willing to move to unfamiliar territory
A43: Scary – when an idea doesn’t work
A46: Good sense of humor
A48: Exciting and challenging to put Flotsam together

Values
Flotsam! Childhood Discovery/Curiosity/Nature - Play
V1: Love of poem, words Flotsam and Jetsam
V2: Likes a colloquial definition of Flotsam and Jetsam – odds and ends
V3: Considering flotsam as ideas, images and memories
V4: Child – love of flotsam (down to earth kind)
V5: Childhood – discovering artifact in woods
V6: Childhood – woods seemed huge
V7: Child – woods was an “exciting and mysterious place to play” ..couldn’t keep away
V8: Childhood story – digging in woods
V9: Childhood – building dams was one of his favorite activities
V10: Childhood story – discover artifact in mud
V11: Childhood story – examining the artifact
V12: Childhood story – curious about how the artifact got there
V13: Childhood – fascinated – the artifact had an unknown history
V15: Artifact – kept on work desk
V16: College sketchbooks
V17: Artifact (lost in fire – deeply saddened “it was like loosing a little piece of my childhood”)
V18: Artifact (lodged in his memory)
V19: Childhood - Wanted the artifact (the two friends disputed when younger)
V23: Time spent with family at beach
V25: Childhood story – Immediately ran to the beach
V27: Fascinated with beach, excited
V28: Childhood story – recalls people looking at a fish in pool
 Coding: Acceptance Speech (Illustrator: Flotsam)

Support/Collaboration/Relationships
V44: Support from friends/co-workers
V45: Support from friends/co-workers (collaborators)
V49: Support from co-worker
V50: Support from family
V51: Environment fostered by family
V52: Appreciates that his work place which is surrounded by his family

Beliefs
Discovery
B30: Creative process is hard, challenging
B39: Reader exploring, discovering (wordless book – exciting reading experience)
B42: Learn new things when in unfamiliar territory (fosters creatively)

B53: Best environment to create is surrounded by family