And all art is poetry

Creativity is an exploratory process to find the concealed material within. We won’t always discover it. If we do, it may not make sense. A seed could draw us because it contains something we don’t understand, and this vague attraction will be as close to knowing as we ever get. Some aspects of the self…

There’s nothing at all to figure out … I’m just here to create

I’m reading Rick Rubin’s new book The Creative Act: A Way of Being. It’s the best book on making art & living a creative life I’ve read since reading Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles and Ted Orland. Here’s an excerpt from Rubins new book: Freedom There…

All the corners of my world

This is what my tutor told me – the instructions are simple: I almost never work with charcoal (I have to remember to use it more, so simple & strong) – I discovered that the different kinds of charcoal I used here were very different regarding erasability. (Next time choose the more erasable ones). (……