Site of Practice and unlocking the creative process.
How healthy creative strategies can unlock a few of our inner resistance that could lead to the creation of an idea?
I consider myself part of a category called “walking artists” artists that employ walking as part of their artistic practice research.
Walking to observe yourself, to feel to forget, to dream ..to create.
Each step has the ability to transform the previous one into something else as a continuous process of becoming and forgiving that leads the majority of the time to the least expected outcome in terms of thinking.
Walking has the capacity to tear down hidden walls of concrete that could lay down on the surface of our mind
disintegrates belief and generates enlightenment
Walls of unfinished projects ready to be commenced...
….impossible projects.
How could we improve and unlock our creative process?
Even though the necessity to maintain a strictly home-studio routine is utterly speculated, I have always found it incredibly fascinating how less we explore our working process.
The underneath layer, the space in between, the unfinished...
How could we access our sacred space,? How long would it take to start that painting, that sketch or that idea? When would you be ready?
Certainly, I have no intention to dismantle the concept that getting straight into the studio and starting to paint could be right or wrong. but being an artist for uttermost a long time now, allowed me to understand further the relationship we develop with the work.
Acknowledging this relationship as a two-part exchange language, before we get intimate in this alliance we should master the ability to build up the layers that could lead us to the special union that is intertwined with our unique form of expression.
This enchanted space is extraordinarily unique and that’s very personal.
From a Sketch to a major project, a poem ... being able to maintain a solid studio routine as an artist, could be never considered undemanding, above all when it comes to ups and downs and following up on multiple projects at the same time.
More often we find ourselves facing numerous insecurities and fears that are commonly derived from developing high expectations in regard to our work.
In those moments mindset and strategy are playing a major role.
Acknowledging that creativity operates from a non-fix place of action, developing a healthy studio habit would require time.
In order to be able to enter this invisible space, we should identify a flexible routine that could work for us.
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Allow yourself to set aside a little bit of space to enter the studio, organize the area, prepare your desk, observe your tools, choose your music, and observe the space you are in. what has changed from the day before? I called this space the white space where we quietly approach our site of practice.
Create some time for reading and writing, adjust your space, and ensure that your studio feels comfortable and cosy.
Be ready for not being prepared! If you are not feeling it, you are not feeling it! Walk away from the work, walk outside and engage possibly in any physical activity that could clear your mind.
Body and mind are rigorously interconnected and if the mind is blurry better let the body move and generate a new territory where recharge with new energy.
Often we find ourselves trapped in a sense of urgency, what if this sense is nearly illusory? what if we actually would be more productive when we operate outside of our
place of anxiety?
Our time and attention to our life and creative practice are utterly essential and therefore should be our priority to understand how we operate in this sense.
Associate professor Cal Newport in his book” Deep work” defined “deep work” as:” Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that pushes your cognitive capacities to their limit. Their effort to create new value, improve your skills and are easy to replicate”.
Your work is important, find time to understand your strategy, forgive yourself and accept the change.