In music, the space between the notes is what creates the melody. The beauty of a piece is formed in the pauses, the spaces in-between. I’ve always been fascinated by these “spaces in-between” and have explored and written about them extensively in teaching (check out my book Getting Messy), art (check out my book Deep…
When I wrote the art book Sky’s the Limit, I spent hours interviewing the gifted artist, Nancy Cawdrey. I adore Nancy’s work and I’m inspired by her artistic process. She emphasized to me how much training she’d had. But the women of Gee’s Bend blow the idea that artists need extensive training out of the…
Not knowing is the essence of creativity. I once heard the celebrated filmmaker David Lynch interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air. Host Terry Gross asked Lynch something about what he does when he makes a movie. Lynch responded that when he makes a movie, he “doesn’t really know” what he’s doing. This statement has always stayed…
“Art doesn’t come in measured quantities. It’s got to be too much or it’s not enough.” ~ Pauline Kael I work with many clients who have big energy. They worry about being ‘too much.’ They want to be nice and fit in. But artists can’t live from a place of ‘fitting in.’ That’s not what…
Artists engage in a process that lets them touch Something that’s alive. Joseph Campbell said, “The way of the artist and the way of the mystic are very much alike, except the mystic does not have a craft.” The creative process allows us to have a conversation with Something greater than ourselves. It puts us in…
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