Friday Question
[Another experiment using textures in Photoshop.]
This might have to be a new category...an inspiring question every Friday. This question is inspired by my experience of having just about everyone say the words "I'm not creative at all," when I tell them I am an artist.
When you look in the mirror and say the words, "I am creative," how does that make you feel? What would help you embrace that truth (because it is true) more completely?
Christine Mason Miller
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what an excellent question! thank you swirly!
forEVER, i've been dancing around this subject. surrounded by *real* artists, i've never been able to claim my own creativity. i write, but that's not really creative, because i'm not making stories up or writing poetry. or i imagine what i want my yoga studio to look like and then i make it look like that, but that's not really art or design. i take pictures, but they are bad. i can't draw so i don't even try. i can tell you that i think something is badly designed, but i couldn't possibly design it myself, i haven't been to art school (not that i'd get in since i have no portfolio)...this negative self-talk goes on and on and on.
but suddenly this year, there has been a shift. i think the blogging has helped me open up and find that creative nugget inside of me that i can accept and own. i write on the blog, and it's fun and playful and i'm lost in it. i take pictures of things i notice, and they aren't always perfect...the color is off or they are out of focus, but i'm learning how to use my camera and well, how can i get better unless i keep trying? mostly i just keep reading the words and looking at the pictures of the art created by this sacred circle of creative souls and i am fully inhabited by inspiration. what once would have felt threatening to me, or more to the point would have that negative voice saying "copy cat, why can't you think of something original?" makes me go...hey, that is soooo cool! i want to try that, too. i want to see what that feels like. i want to TRY. so i'm allowing myself that.
try...
just try...
don't judge...
and it's starting to feel good to say "i am creative!"
xox*
I love this post! I have had creativity on the brain recently in all shapes and sizes. I love being a mom, and sadly maybe not entirely for the "right" reasons. I finally started to grasp at all of the possibilities available to me now. More than I could have ever thought of. So, now I can let my creativity and imagination flow.
I am starting by thinking of some ideas for a book I have dreamed about for years and just never thought I was "creative" enough to do, but I am. What an amazing realization! It is truly liberating!