… I’ve had a significant creative block for about the last 18 months without realising it. It snuck up on me without me being aware of what was missing from my life.
I need a strategy or two to get me out of where I’ve been languishing. I don’t want to stop knitting- I want to do a wider variety of artistic things. Knitting is the creation of a garment using other people’s designs. My one act of creativity within this is my choice of yarns. No wonder then that when I look at where I’ve been that I feel so blocked.
I need to establish some time and space to get art journalling again. I need to get on with it, not wory about how interesting on not it is, just put in the time. I think maybe I need to look at The Artist’s Way again- try some of the exercises.
… Neither of them could say if asked exactly when they started over. It just crept up on them. Both could say that in their teens they’d briefly been the love of each other’s life.
They went their separate ways, married other people, acquired assets and had children.
And found each other again.
They met on neutral ground. Both intending to see how the other had changed, catch up on the intervening years and return to the lives they both now led.
I like. It sets two stages – past and present – and sets up tension and resolution!
dig out those Juliana Coles journal workshops and leap right in – glad to see you posting
I’ve been doing some art journaling over the winter. It’s probably not this way for everyone, but that helps me in other creative areas. I think that writing and knitting and other creative activities reinforce each other. Creativity is cumulative.
Something else I’ve found helpful for writing is Morning Pages (http://paperartstudio.tripod.com/artistsway/id3.html), just an exercise to limber up and relax.
Such great comments, thank you.
I like Twyla Tharp’s view that Creativity is a Habit! I know from work I’ve done before that it only takes 21 days to make a new habit, or break an old one…