Creativity thrives on an openness and innocence (or perhaps wilful ignorance), a trust in the unknown and a delightful anticipation of the unexpected. It calls for a certain level of restriction, pressure or limitation: a time constraint, a budget limit, an equipment or materials limit, inexperience, weather conditions, client preferences, Mercury or Mars in retrograde, etc.
Tag: creative life
An artist must choose to shun acceptable behavior, political correctness, and the comforts of the commonplace to truly exist in the spacetime of their genius. Playing it safe is like painting by numbers, stealing a riff, using pitch correction, obeying the clock, failing, failing again, and then giving up; it’s pandering to the normals and ignoring what the world desperately needs from us.
Music has always been a thread woven through the fabric of my life, pulling me back to moments both vivid and forgotten. The memories it stirs are as random as they are profound, often triggered by the simplest things.
Creativity is a journey of immersion — a dance between inspiration and uncertainty. As artists, we’re drawn to something greater, something intangible, but often hesitate at the threshold, reluctant to step into the unknown. The truth is, the magic doesn’t lie in perfection or certainty. It lives in the act of beginning — embracing the messiness, the mistakes, and the discoveries along the way.