Creativity
Love to create~
Creativity
Love to create~
the relational thread of your art (Allen Arnold)
It doesn’t begin with you and a canvas, screen, stage, or microphone. It starts with you and God. The reason you love to create is because God created you that way. Not so you’d pursue it alone…but with him as Creator and Father. The life you have with God while creating will determine the life of
... See moreCollecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.
Every idea has its time
Good ideas, he argues, arrive when someone commits to playing with ideas that are just at the periphery of lived experience, just beyond the present state. It takes intentional effort to get to these ideas, because you must take the time and expend the energy to toy with combinations of ideas that might not work.
The container is the organizing principle of the work. It dictates which elements do and don’t belong.
Play can easily be dismissed as childish, irresponsible and unbecoming of the seriousness required of us modern achievement-subjects. But the demand for playful living is really a demand to reject the conditions of the achievement society. Embracing play is a bold defiance against the relentless productivity mantra of the achievement society. But
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