BRISBANE RIVER WALK, Australia – 61/100
Obstacle – Can’t
10. What seems impossible
This post completes Monday nods to 10 areas where artists can solve problems. This exercise has humbled me as I try to make it sound real, be inspiring, and not go into ungrounded advice from some airy-faery place. It’s one thing to have opinions about how artists work in the world, it’s quite another to articulate something someone hasn’t already said more clearly or more eloquently, to offer another perspective. I’m in the process of redeveloping these 10 brief suggestions into a stand-alone piece. Very challenging! So far, we’ve looked very briefly at the following.
- Urban development & design
- Resource use and renewal
- Educational reform
- At the edge of change
- Hunger and nourishment
- Innovation and entrepreneurship
- Hybrids and collaborations
- Untapped sources of energy
- Leadership
Dear Creatrix,
I’m overflowing with ideas to make something wonderful. Maybe it’s not that important anyway. I don’t know where to begin. What do I do?
Signed,
Artiste
Dear Artiste,
What you are imagining is for you to give. If you think about it for one thoughtful minute, you will comprehend your thievery. You must stop stealing yourself and your creations away from the rest of us. At least one of them is worth allowing past the gates of your imagination to take root in the physical world.
What you are planning and hoping for, what you want to make to offer up, you must prepare to do. You must practice making things real. Use this exercise anytime:
When your mind identifies a small thing you can apply your imagination to, practice doing it. I mean simple, simple, simple things. Like this: You imagine broccoli for dinner? You become aware you can make this real. You do it: fix broccoli for dinner. That simple.
Take note: This works, works fast and works big. You are wired to create.
Signed,
Creatrix
p.s. Why isn’t this taught and mentored to every person?
Solution – Reach out your hand
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Thanks Rebekah!
You’ve really got me thinking about how artists can help problem solve and contribute to our community in areas where we normally let others rough it out. One thing I can say is: Maybe what we are really helping contribute is the (or our personal) ability to follow intuition. I think that most artists work from a place almost indescribable, when they let go, and almost let the art make itself. They are following their intuition, their emotions, and their sense of what feels right. I’m not sure that is beautifully put, but it’s just a thought that this thread, what makes artists helping in these “10 areas,” successful. I’ve found myself believing more and more in the power of intuition not only in my art but in life as well.
Here are some wiki-definitions I thought interesting:
* Intuition (philosophy), the act by which the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas
* Intuition (knowledge), understanding without apparent effort
Just thought I’d throw something out there to (and potentially win a book : ) …)
B
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Thanks, Britt, for your thoughtful (yes, and eloquently written) response. You are indeed entered to win a book!
Intuition is a big part of it, isn’t it? What intuition is, though, is a good question. The philosophical definition you found on wiki seems to identify the place or moment where problems can be solved. Obstacles are places, maybe, where the movement seems to stop. It is a fine surgeon or miner (artist) who can follow the thread of movement from that point. The apparently without effort definition…when the hard work feels like this, mmmmm…..
It would be great to hear about your work in bringing art and community together if you’re up for sharing a bit of it here?
your thoughts and creations are definitely inspirations to others. I believe we are all capable of this energy to create in word and visual. we just need to find the strength to let it be.
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The quote about preparing to do, making things real, this hits home. It seems easy to want something, but harder to actually manifest it in the self first. This is the only way to go. The bird does not land in the imaginary nest.