When working intuitively it’s what you perceive yourself to be doing on the surface that determines what you do. You may not be aware of what you perceive yourself to be doing, and that may or may not be relevant depending on…what you’re trying to do.

Things you can perceive yourself to be creating:
— landscape
— single thoroughly coherent visual object
— collection of objects
— schematic
— map
— tight interaction of painterly powers
— story

Which you perceived yourself to be doing affects your mental stance as you work.

— landscape: creating an experience of territory, climate, mood: you’re an emotion weaver

— single thoroughly coherent visual object: engineering, inventing, designing an object for visual use, whether as an industrial designer or as a god or scientist creating a biological entity: you’re an engineer

— collection of objects: gathering, indexing, categorizing, arranging, studying, fetishizing: you’re an indexer, accountant, anthropology museum curator

— schematic: diagramming a machine, building, anatomy, and/or process: you’re an engineer

— map: diagramming real or imagined or conceptual place from a remove: you’re a cartographer

— tight interaction of painterly powers: discovering and combining form texture color, combining elements in search of an effect: you’re an interior design helper, working blindly for an interior designer you don’t know

— story: relating a narrative, arranging fact and incident toward a theme plot message: you’re a storyteller