Category: creative process
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What’s the title of this painting?
What is the title of his painting I ask myself. I look at it and think–What have I created here in this work? What is going on with all the shapes and layers and marks that form this composition. Where was I when I started it, and where did the process take me? I ask […]
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A New Year Wish for anyone struggling and not able to celebrate
“Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book I am re-blogging this post from 2013, a very difficult year in my life and I’m sending it out to anyone who has struggled this year. Life this year has been stamping its foot, screaming at the […]
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Mind your own business
“There are only three kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours, and God’s.” ~ Byron Katie Today, I had the urge to write about something that I was outraged about. I was annoyed about a particular internet art star. I wanted to be the kid in the crowd who cries out that the emperor has no clothes. But […]
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Phew!
I am working on my play again after a couple of months of avoiding it. I feel like I am standing in front of a house with no door– and I am trying to figure out how to get back in. Today I am going for a long walk around Trout Lake with my characters. […]
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Poem from a recurring dream.
I dream of a little cage, on the edge of a cliff, where I pretend to live contentedly, rather than learn to swim across the turbulent waters below. Lulled by the illusion of safety, I hang there trapped– above murky waters, as if sitting alone in a cage, is preferable to the risk of learning […]
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Some lists.
I reblogged this post from a few years ago I think I have come a long way from this but some of them still apply. Reasons I get stuck. 1. It is hard to keep going when the destination seems so distant and unknown. 2. It is hard to keep believing in yourself– when […]
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Life is too precious to rush.
Making art teaches me– that life is too precious to rush. I don’t want to miss any miracles. And there are always miracles unfolding. It takes time to truly become conscious of how art opens the doors of perception and reveals the deeper parts of the soul. Drawing, painting demands that I slow down. Hand […]
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Accepting uncertainty and living the questions in life and art.
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Live in the question.” Rainer Maria Rilke I love these words. I try to call them up when I face uncertainty I am in the middle of developing an idea that is slowly forming in my mind. I don’t know if it is […]
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Full Moon coming July 3rd. Get your wishes ready
Getting ready for making wishes on the full moon, July 3rd. I used to have tea parties with my friend Rachel once a month before she moved to Boston. She taught me the different names of the full moons, as they appear through the wheel of the year. The last one was the strawberry moon […]
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On Moths and purpose and creative process and such
Metamorphosis is a profound change, from one stage to the next, in the life of an organism, as from the caterpillar to the pupa and from the pupa to the moth. I think I am in my moth stage right now. After months as a pupa, I am emerging from my cocoon and ready for something, […]
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Magic cures for writers block- Day One. Ask good questions.
In this post I am going to address the notion of writer’s block. In all honesty I don’t actually get full blown writers block. I write every day. I am always journalling, blogging, scribbling, pondering, musing, reflecting, or working out something on paper. Writing is how I clear my mind, and make sense of the […]
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