ART PROJECTS

How I process the world around me & give life to my creations... When I sat down to reflect on the process I go through in creating art, I delightfully came to the realization that this process is very similar to the process I go through in the way I        L  I  V  E. Boy is it rad being a creative!

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Being creative, it might possibly be the strongest power I have. Whether it is when I am in a group of people that I never knew, and sparking up something that can connect all of us to break the silence or how to go about anything really.... Now that I think of it, being creative is really about connecting. As an artist, our art is truly about connecting.  Connecting with our work, literally pouring our feelings, hopes, dreams, desires, and even our fears as Pollock splattered paint upon his canvas that was mentally and physically apart of him.

    So when I begin my art, my first step in the creative process is my desire to connect.  It depends on what emotion I am trying to connect with.  Most of the time I connect with feelings of love, joy, and inspiration.  But there have been times when I connected with the most depressing of feelings. Feeling of strong mental pain that feels so unbearable and as much as I am experiencing the pain, I somehow find a way to connect to what I usually want to connect with most of the time which are feelings of love, joy and inspiration.  The creative process works nicely in that way.  I love having my own way of therapy.  It makes me feel more independent, more sure of myself as if I’m using the creative process to figure out more and more of who I truly am.

    The next step is the fun part.  Once the feeling of the desire to connect is noted, I begin to do whatever the hell I want! I am not a planner. I don't really care for drawing in graphite pencil just to see what the picture would look like, and then adding my thoughts, emotions and feelings with crayons, markers or paint on top.  I prefer to be surprised.  Yes I keep in mind my intended structure, but what I’m really trying to do here is follow my heart.  The thing about following your heart, is that I am addicted to the element of surprise. For example, I am going to school as an art education major through the desires of my heart and the surprising thing is…? I loved it more than I ever thought I would.  Applying that to my art, isn’t it more fun to do art when you are surprised to see where your elements will take you? I am in control as the artist, but I am trying to be aware that my creations are living and breathing.  I am trying to let it have a life of it’s own.  I feel really content after that, knowing that I constructed and gave life to a creation.