Countdown: 4 posts to go!
To celebrate continuing artistic life and the colour red, and
to thank you for helping me reach 100 comments as this blog comes to a close,
Win a sketchbook!
Comment between 17 September – 15 October 2010
Each time you comment, your name goes in the hat to win this beautiful Italian leather sketchbook.
We’ve reached 103 comments and I still hope to hear from you! Reading and responding to others’ comments is welcome.
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Rebekah West, Digital image ©2010
SOUTHBANK, BRISBANE, Queensland – 96/100
Obstacle – Knowing your creative or artistic voice
Creativity lives in choices. This way, this timing, this colour, this perspective, voice, timbre, quality, texture, taste, tone.
Creative people ask questions.
Creative people whinge/whine about their art.
Creative people like and dislike, rant, opine, regard and disregard, gravitate toward.
Creative people want it just this way. Not that way! To be clear…This Way.
You get the idea.
Conscious, successful, thriving creative people listen to these ramblings, they listen to themselves talk and they take note. They respect what they say (see, hear, notice) because therein lies how their creativity manifests. It’s how they communicate. It is what makes them unique. If their work goes to market, it is what makes their work appealing, salable, and sustainable.
Seems obvious. Isn’t.
Try this:
When you make an artistic choice, maybe when you’re wrestling over something, make the choice you want. Just you. Because it is what you want, the way you want it.
The Fritz quote is so right for me now, especially as I start to look for my next career step – and I want it to be something amazing and creative and challenging and the “right direction” for me (instead of getting too far into something not for me, like semiconductors).
I have been trying to practice this anyway – stepping back, giving myself space all summer, now starting to investigate and process, not moving too fast, and allowing the right things to arise. I also have to put some effort in here, it won’t happen by itself. But I am listening to my creative ramblings, and it’s starting to take form. My new blog is part of that experimentation for myself – merging the creative and intellectual and writing and inner/outer that I always wanted. I’m not thinking it will be my job, but I think the process will help steer me.
Thank you again for your insights. I will miss this blog – how do I keep hearing from you in this way?
104/100
The blog will continue in a more refined manner once I have settled in to my writing residency in France/Europe – perhaps beginning 1 December. I’ll definitely keep subscribers to this blog posted! Thanks and merry cheers as your own artistic voice continues to unfold!
G’day Rebekah… Ron here mate (from Artsource) – hope your travels find you at least somewhere comfy, mate – comfy and within close and easy access to yummy tucker!
What if creative people don’t realise they are, in fact – creative? Or – worse – that they don’t believe in creativity? What then? I guess I think of those we spoke about on your visit to Bather’s Beach that day. Them fellas and the younger ones – for whom creativity is just a dream – one they’re not privy too – for whatever reasons that life heaps upon ‘em!
I guess I reckon this makes what we do all the more important, then! I hate watching young dreams getting crushed by a jaded older generation(s)! If dreams are carriers of creative thought and want – it’s a wonder that creativity gets where it does at times… Yay for the tenacity of youth and their creativity! Bring it on I reckon!
Cheers mate…
105/100
Hey mate,
So let’s do something with young people in your neck of the woods then.
Your comment got me in the gut and heart. Creativity, I think, is why we humans are here at all. Just my opinion. What else is life for?