Every creative work begins within a primary space chosen by its creator.

A primed canvas is already a painting. An orchestra is already a concert. A stage before us, a sheet of paper at hand, a view through a camera, or a passing face can establish the starting point from which a work emerges.

The primary space is the first element to appear in the implementation of a confined space. Once chosen and occupied, it provides every condition the work requires. It does not have to be discovered. It is a given that defines the intellectual model about to be presented.

These programs introduce practical methods for approaching the creative process consciously: defining and occupying the primary space, distinguishing its elements, recognising the object and subject of the work, and bringing the work into an independent form.

An idea cannot be implemented while remaining in its permanent, ideal state. Every act of realisation transforms it. The method therefore does not preserve or develop the idea indefinitely. It implements the confined space until the idea relinquishes its primacy and becomes an independent work.

These programs are for anyone who has a work to make and a space to make it in. The methods apply equally at the start of a first project, in the middle of a blocked one, and in the reconsideration of an established practice.

The aim is not to prescribe what participants should create. It is to help them discover the answers their own work demands.