Part two: My creative process
What is it made of?
Dear Readers of Catching Shower Flowers,
*photo of me in the studio by ilsa wynne-hoelscher kidd
As promised in my preface here is the full bodied piece that is Part two: My creative Process.
In Part one I explored my below processes—
Improvisation
Playfulness (Childlikeness).
Dance
Storytelling and verbal processing
All mediums, no bounds
… and here in part two I will further explore the below...
Do everything else first
Catching words
Taking notice (and store-housing for later).
Stillness and solitude
Collaboration
If you missed it, You can catch up on part one here:
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The creative process is a wondrous & windy road, one full of highs and lows, twists and turns—you’ll either land where you began after going off course (because it’s necessary for you to do so in the believing and beholding of your first instinct) or the beginnings will take you where you need to arrive. If you can surrender to the evolution and chaos and mess and mountains and the absolute insanity of not knowing where the heck you are going—eventually, you will arrive at the sigh and representation of your inner and outer longings.
And then once it’s formed,
let it go…
6. Doing everything else first.
It is not separate to the art that I first need to do a whole lot of unnecessary necessaries, to somewhat arrive at what is hoping to be expressed through me and any given medium, artfully—