feel free to copy the works that inspire you on the road to finding your own voice. It’s a time-tested tradition.

We don’t need to make a point of making a point. It will appear when it appears.

Carl Rogers said, “The personal is the universal.”

Base decisions on the internal feeling of being moved and notice what holds your interest.

During the Experimentation phase, we are paying attention to this natural reaction of enthrallment in the body.

In nature, some seeds lie dormant in anticipation of the season most conducive to their growth. This is true of art as well. There are ideas whose time has not yet come. Or perhaps their time has come, but you are not yet ready to engage with them. Other times, developing a different seed may shed light on a dormant one.

If you’ve collected a hundred seeds, you might find that seed number fifty-four speaks to you in a way that none of the others do. If number fifty-four is your only choice, without other seeds for context, it’s more difficult to tell.

Collect many seeds and then, over time, look back and see which ones resonate. Sometimes we’re too close to them to recognize their true potential, and other times the magical moment that inspired a seed into existence is bigger than the seed itself.

Limit your practical choices to free your creative imagination.