This struck a chord with me, and as you know my recent exhibition referred to the universal conscience idea/theory that was brought to my attention by Rick Rubins book, "The Creative Act (a way of being)"
We're all made of the same stuff, so it's possible that if one engages in a creative frame of mind we can be more open to ideas...
Yes interesting. Do you mean that the act of engaging in creative practice creates the state of openness which invites something in? I don’t know Rubin’s work - I will check it out!
I do mean that. Being in the right place with the right stuff to hand is part of the opening of the channel to my creativity. Ideas can pop up in other circumstances, often when engaged in something else like driving for example. Much of my visual art results in abstraction, rather than sitting down in front of a physical object, I'll start with a gesture, having chosen the media, and go on to respond with colour etc.
I like your analogy of faces to dreams as individual and uniquely beautiful, and to put it from you/ me/ wherever it has come from back into the shared pool, I'm now thinking of how this metaphor also works with that which we all have in common and, transpersonally, perhaps this extends to function too - like faces, aspects of dreams can (psychologically and spiritually) help us to 'see' and 'hear' and even 'breath'. This feels exciting to me (and also shows the power of imagery). Thought provoking and kind of soul-satisfying. Thank you.
Yes, that is a cool extension of this, and yes, extending in to verbs and function. I agree that imagery is powerful, the more you think about it the more of its power is revealed. Dreams change the nature of reality.
Yes, they do, including in the way that they can seep so insistently into our feeling state, so that our day arises from them. And of course, they can inform us more consciously too. Thought provoking - I'm enjoying poetic therapeutics!
This struck a chord with me, and as you know my recent exhibition referred to the universal conscience idea/theory that was brought to my attention by Rick Rubins book, "The Creative Act (a way of being)"
We're all made of the same stuff, so it's possible that if one engages in a creative frame of mind we can be more open to ideas...
Yes interesting. Do you mean that the act of engaging in creative practice creates the state of openness which invites something in? I don’t know Rubin’s work - I will check it out!
I do mean that. Being in the right place with the right stuff to hand is part of the opening of the channel to my creativity. Ideas can pop up in other circumstances, often when engaged in something else like driving for example. Much of my visual art results in abstraction, rather than sitting down in front of a physical object, I'll start with a gesture, having chosen the media, and go on to respond with colour etc.
I like your analogy of faces to dreams as individual and uniquely beautiful, and to put it from you/ me/ wherever it has come from back into the shared pool, I'm now thinking of how this metaphor also works with that which we all have in common and, transpersonally, perhaps this extends to function too - like faces, aspects of dreams can (psychologically and spiritually) help us to 'see' and 'hear' and even 'breath'. This feels exciting to me (and also shows the power of imagery). Thought provoking and kind of soul-satisfying. Thank you.
Yes, that is a cool extension of this, and yes, extending in to verbs and function. I agree that imagery is powerful, the more you think about it the more of its power is revealed. Dreams change the nature of reality.
Yes, they do, including in the way that they can seep so insistently into our feeling state, so that our day arises from them. And of course, they can inform us more consciously too. Thought provoking - I'm enjoying poetic therapeutics!