How do you get creative energy from getting low?
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How do you get creative energy from getting low? http://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/3-office-tweaks-to-boost-creativity.html My parents didn’t save my childhood artwork. I don’t care. I created millions of drawings and paintings in my youth on whatever type of surface I could find or was given to me — with out care of the medium or the permanence. The only reason I bring it up is that I held on to this plastic plate that I created in elementary school. It was one of those plates that every kid made in about the second grade. You’d draw a picture on a circular piece of white paper and then a couple weeks later you were presented with this terrific plate that you were encouraged to give to your mom. With four kids drawing pictures on circles that turned into plates, none of our plates were special “mom” gifts; instead they became our own special plates. We were all very proud of our individual plates. We used them at every meal… Until one day we didn’t and they sat buried in the cabinet. When my parents packed for Florida about 20 years ago I saw my plate again and took it to live with me. In my house it is propped up on the shelf in my studio — after all it is the only surviving piece of childhood artwork done by this particular Creative Director. It is made by a girl waiting for who she would become — somehow already knowing. I can’t help but smile when I look at it. It’s a simple child’s landscape drawn with colorful magic markers. The sky is the brightest blue. Across the bottom, colorful flowers bloom and sway in a garden of tall green grass. You can almost hear the birds singing in the straight-up puffy-topped tree from which they nest. Stylized butterflies float high, lit by a hot sun. Across the center of plate in large colorful letters is the word SPRING — written with a curlycue effect. I know this little girl who created this plate so well. I can still see her sitting at the art room table orchestrating the two-dimensional scene on the paper. The dance of creating Spring on this plate was done by this Creative Director as she was inventing who she would become. I am looking at this plate today — decades later. Outside there is 10 inches of new fallen snow. It has been a particularly cold snowy winter. All I want is for Spring to arrive. I stop short of wishing days away. I catch myself staring at the snow too long as I will the sun to warm the earth and send psychic “hang in there!” messages to the fish that are frozen in my small pond. I remind myself that when the creative pieces come together visions can bloom even when there is a foot of snow on the ground… All I need is a piece of paper and a handful of colorful magic markers! To learn more about Mary Carol: http://www.arachnedesignstudios.com/mary-carol-sullivan.html © Mary Carol Sullivan 02/0/14 MARY CAROL SULLIVAN IS A CREATIVE DIRECTOR who will challenge your established ideas and offer fresh perspectives. www.linkedin.com/pub/mary-carol-sullivan/5/692/3b7/ spiderpaint@verizon.net https://www.vizify.com/mary-carol-sullivan |
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