For the Hungry Artist
Facebook. Instagram. Twitter. Pinterest.
There’s a lot of social media out there…and I like to consume and get ideas from all of them.
This infographic from Confused.com is hilarious–and true. I might be (happily) guilty of one of these… Continue reading “Social Media Zombie?”
There are multiple mediums of artistic expression: oil on canvas, word on paper, film on screen, status update on Facebook.
Regardless of the medium, at times our initial vision may get distorted by a glitch (or two) during the creative process. The clay is too dry. The paint is low quality. Writer block. Fear. In the case of a Facebook update intending to be clever, the distortion emerges because of not proofreading.
A simple example, and yet it proved a point to me:
Our blunders often create something unexpected.
Isn’t that what we want as creatives? We love the unexpected. Something new. Something fresh. Something surprising and refreshing. Sometimes we must allow ourselves the grace to make mistakes during the process. If we don’t, we will never create. We will never share. Others will never enjoy our work.
Conversely, when we do give ourselves grace in the process, we enjoy the immense satisfaction of creating and sharing our work. It’s very refreshing. Very rewarding.
Isn’t it time to dive in? Time to make some mistakes? Time to blunder?
Who knows, the end result may be more interesting, beautiful, and unique with the mistakes than without them.
My wife saw this on her Facebook page:
I love the honest call of this post’s author, and I’m convinced he’s not alone. I believe this is one of the main reasons I must blog: to encourage that professional and spiritual awakening. To inspire. To challenge. To feed the ‘hunger.’
This is why we write. Why we sing. Why we present. Why we speak. Why we teach.
This is why I .
People need to participate in what we have to give. We must share it or it dies with us.
What are you filling in that blank?
Who are you doing it for?
This is why I .
