Chapter 7 of potential hindrances to our creative development: 00VII: All successful art is confirmed when the audience responds exactly as the artist intended. If we are dipping a bucket into the unknown depths of our creative pool, the above assertion could come across as a pretty big should: like we’re supposed to know what we are creating… Continue reading
Chapter 6 of potential hindrances to our creative development: [Looking back on the last 4 articles, I’m wondering if I may have gone a little too far out. I have to remind myself that the aim of these writings is to help expose what we need to unlearn to reveal our creative abilities. What often ends up… Continue reading
Continuing on with the presupposition that Art is learning to take the idea in our head (imagination means ‘picturing it’) and executing that idea in material form… I have to bring up one particular mental picture obsession that stands out above the others (at least in the adult art education scene) and that is a landscape…. Continue reading
Chapter 6 of potential hindrances to our creative development continued… Finding ideas instead of trying to think of them is just one approach to expanding the scope of the imagination beyond what is already preconceived. But if we have limited ourselves to what David Bohm referred to as “one’s habits of mechanical perception in terms of preconceived ideas… Continue reading
It doesn’t take much experience in the world to realize that sitting at a table or desk trying to think of new ideas can be lame. This follows what I’ve mentioned about the intention of capturing or grasping something leading to our missing it completely. Once I had ferreted out the resistance of my idea-in-my-mind… Continue reading
Chapter 6 of potential hindrances to our creative development continued… At the end of the intro to this chapter, I left off with the question: How is imagination different than knowledge? I’ve been cruising in the country of this question throughout this blog but the shifts in atmosphere seem to expose new sights and sounds. As always and… Continue reading
Chapter 6 of potential hindrances to our creative development: 00VI: Art is learning to take the idea in our head (imagination means ‘picturing it’) and executing that idea in material form. How do you consider your imagination when you make art (or ‘something’, if art is too lofty a term)? Do you have a picture in your mind… Continue reading
Lately, with these articles, I’ve been feeling like I am taking someone for a walk in the moonlight— the way the light is soft and diffused and shapes are not fully defined. Even though this content has been brought into my daylight through experience, I realize by trying to talk about it I am only… Continue reading
Chapter 5 of potential hindrances to our creative development: **00V: We need to be ‘inspired‘ in order to create.** Coming to the end of this chapter, I cannot help noticing the cause-and-effect flavour of this statement and how this linear view toward something as timeless and ubiquitous as inspiration may be the root of several kinks in… Continue reading
00V of potential hindrances to our creative development continued… Continuing on from the last post: what happens when we feel we’ve totally lost all inspiration or have to be creative on demand? I’ve had my fair share of feeling like a wind-up toy that has hit a wall and then keeps revving up against it. There are endless… Continue reading