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Do You Need to Challenge Your Assumptions About a Healthy Creative Process?

5/8/2018

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Digitally painted photo of rail-track disappearing into tunnel with swirling clouds above a church in a red sky - overlaid with the words “This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other with more integrity, more curiosity, more wholeheartedness.” ― Maria Popova

Joy, Politics and Rebellion. Not the words we automatically associate with our creative process. 

​But maybe we should?

​In these three posts I dig deep into why we need to challenge the assumptions about what’s healthy and valid when it comes to making art.

​Click on the titles for the full posts.
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Why You Need to Infuse Your Creative Practice With Joy
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We’re hard at it, right? We’re clocking up hours in the studio or at our writing desk.

But are we present?

​Are we experi​encing JOY?
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Guernica and Michael Moore: Artists Daring to Speak Boldly
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The perceived wisdom is that art and politics don’t mix.

​But are art and politics necessarily a bad thing to put together?

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Why Being a Rebel is Good for Your Creativity
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We keep thinking there’s a right way of doing things.

​That’s why so many of us are getting stuck.​..

Do any of these ideas strike a chord?

Are there ways in which you would like to incorporate them into your creative practice?

​Share in the comments!

© Author: Cherry Jeffs



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