📚 ref - creative fuel
references, inspo & ideas about what it means to fuel creativity.
📚 ref - creative fuel
references, inspo & ideas about what it means to fuel creativity.

“Within societal flows of ideas, methods, materials, styles, and techniques.”

You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.
fallow periods. what are we actually trying to create? often we go into creative practice with an output in mind,; what if we paid more attention to the conditions? and those conditions change depending on the season our creativity is in: in fallow periods maybe it needs to be left alone, in expressive periods maybe it needs to be pruned, in growth periods it needs to be watered etc.
idea for workshop: me and Lucy could each map the “cycle” or map of our substacjs since we started them, correlating them with posts published (creative moments) and other life events? e.g. for me would be break up, started dating; for lucy would be acting etc. we could use this to illustrate that creativity happens in the context of LIFE and life
... See morethere’s a reason it’s called playing music.
— maggie rogers

for July workshop: maybe there’s something in this around how we often miss this vital part of the creative process because we priorise two of the stages, rather than completing the full cycle? Might not work, but it could also be a relatable feeling for people in the room.