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Auteur

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.

Spectral

When you pursue your creations and inspirations with unabashed passion and intense focus, you amplify your beneficence to the collective. When you are “out of…

An Artist’s Way

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.