Creativity

Congratulations; You’re Doing It!

by John Lacey on August 31, 2010

The good news is that if someone tells you you’re doing it ‘wrong’ it means simply this: you’re doing it.

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Margaret Fabrizio: Commitment, Not Complaining

by John Lacey on August 25, 2010

This video seems very timely for me. As Margaret explains creative people are bombarded with ideas and projects they’d like to do and sometimes this can overwhelm us to the point where we don’t do anything at all. (I chuckled because like Margaret I sometimes play solitaire to distract myself.)

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Knowing When To Stop…

by John Lacey on August 12, 2010

I’ve often been a little bemused watching some of Gary Reef’s videos. He’ll present something that, to my eyes, looks extraordinary. But sometimes you’ll detect a note of unease, a kind of restlessness in him. He isn’t crazy about what he’s produced, but by the same token he often doesn’t seem able to articulate exactly why. This confused me a little… until it started happening to me.

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Art Practice: Meditation Versus Action

by John Lacey on August 2, 2010

Where do ideas and art come from anyway? It’s all well and good to talk about ‘artistic process’ in an abstract fashion but it really is all about doing something – anything – and then doing something else. Progress in process is all in the doing.

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