I have been wracking my brain trying to figure out what to write my next blog post about and have been stuck.  After writing a little something daily and posting doodles for the past month of October my mind has come up blank.  I have my moments when I seem to have a lot to say and am on a role.  The same happens in my art making, I go through stages when I am making art all the time and then it just stops.  I use to panick  and worry that I was not creative enough to sustain my art making.  Now I try to just roll with it.  There is a natural ebb and flow that happens with creativity which often is forgotten.

When we are driven by product its easy to forget the importance of honoring the process.  This includes embracing the unknown aspects of our creative process, that which has not yet unfolded and which still needs time to grow.

Creativity is made up of many parts, which often occur under the radar of most people’s awareness.  We take things in from our environment and our experience of them can ignite a creative spark. The ideas  (for lack of a better word) may sit there, meditating in a sense until they are ready to come forward. Thus the seed is planted, nurtured, then germinates,  sprouts, and the seed grows becoming more than the original seed, now a living entity.

This is the messy stuff of creativity, it’s unpredictability. It pushes us to let go of our need for  control, our need to know.

The right environment has to exist for sure, one of acceptance and willingness to venture into the unknown, but also an environment which has just the right emotional temperature, and timing.  Timing can not be bartered with, the seed of the creative idea knows just when it is ready to sprout, and no two are alike.  This is the messy stuff of creativity, it’s unpredictability. It pushes us to let go of our need for  control, our need to know.

Creativity is of course more than a sum of its parts. It is a beautiful dance which occurs between the art maker and their creative fire. A letting go of expectations so that the dance can be danced without inhibition and with the utmost of expression.

When I am  comfortable with my unique creative pace  I am more prepared to  be patient with the unfolding and witnessing of creative ebb and flow in others.