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Re: Inspiration?
I'm struggling with this right now. I've been trying to get back into the swing of making art on a regular basis and I've noticed a profound lack of inspiration. I'm interested to hear what anyone has to offer, cuz I'll try anything!
I've been working on technique - just drawing from photographs - and hoping that something just sparks. No luck so far. I think part of it is that I don't have a lot of time to just "play" in my studio like I used to. I would go in there and just organize shelves and look at stuff and before I knew it, I was working on something. Now I rarely step foot in there with everything else I have going on. I hope that changes in the next few months!
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Since the only forms of art that I am doing right now are photography and fractal art, inspiration isn't something I have to rely on. Most of my photography is nature or animals, and my fractal art is just that...fractal art.
Now, when I get started doing bead work, that will be a different story I think. Especially when I get decently good at it. I may need more inspiration to create certain things than I do for the other art forms I am involved with.
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I don't really know what I do. But I do know that when I actually need inspiration, it's never there, but it always tends to show up in my head in the middle of class or @ work, or somewhere where I can't execute it right that minute and it drives me insane! And yes, I could write down my ideas and save them for later, and I have tried that. Problem is, when I get around to having the time....I forget why I was so inspired by that idea in the first place, and it loses all of its "spirit" or appeal. To put it in shorter terms: The moment has passed.
However, when I actually do need the inspiration and it's just not there, I turn to my own life, really. I think about what's going on in my life right now that's either really awesome, or really bothering me, and think about how I could visually symbolize that. I'll turn to the good 'ol google image search to supplement that, lol! And when all else fails, I just draw my tribal spirals to calm my nerves, even if I don't have paper...all I need is a sharpie and my hand or a foot, or my arm, or a forehead...(No one ever lets me draw on their forehead! whaaa!), anything can be a canvas, lol! (I'll post pictures sometime)
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Re: Inspiration?
I follow most of the things people have mentioned. I look, I journal, I read, I flip through books with pretty pictures.
I find sometimes distraction/relaxing is the best thing I can do... just let go over stressing over it. On that note, a source of my inspiration lately iswww.Icanhascheezburger.com
I go, I laugh, I make funny captions and go back at the problem with a bouyed spirit and clear mind.
Now, for some peices I do try to really feel what I want the piece to say. So I just try to be whatever it is. I evoke/invoke and Work it. And it tends to just be right to the extent I can open myself to it.
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...but it always tends to show up in my head in the middle of class or @ work, or somewhere where I can't execute it right that minute and it drives me insane! And yes, I could write down my ideas and save them for later, and I have tried that. Problem is, when I get around to having the time....I forget why I was so inspired by that idea in the first place, and it loses all of its "spirit" or appeal. To put it in shorter terms: The moment has passed.
However, when I actually do need the inspiration and it's just not there...
I always have a pen and paper handy, and I tend to doodle through any boring meeting I'm in. The doodles are pretty worthless, but I find that sometimes there will be something in them that I can develop and use.
According to C. G. Jung, the unconcious mind (or if you prefer to see it this way - the Gods or spirits that give inspiration) doesn't run on linear time like our concious minds do. For the unconcious, all time is now - so the moment never really passes, unless you've worked out whatever was causing the inspiration in the first place.
The upshot of all this is that, if you have an idea, even if it's from yearas ago, once you start working with it, it all comes back.
At least this is what I've found to be the case for myself. I have more notebooks filled with ideas than I'll ever be able to use in one lifetime. Usually it's hard to go back to an old idea and get it running again (because I feel like I'm going backwards), but once I get moving, it's like the idea becomes fresh again.
I often find myself working on ideas that have been floating around on crumpled sheets of paper for years...
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