Art world links which caught my eye…
Art by Dorothy Lathrop, 1922
Creativity can be a hard road, with many obstacles and detours. I always say persistence is the key. This article addresses some strategies for getting past artist block.
"Writing in the spirit of Lewis Hyde's The Gift, Nachmanovitch considers a common stage of the creative process — what the polymathic mathematician Henri Poincaré called 'sudden illumination' and the physicist Freeman Dyson called 'a flash of illumination' — and offers an essential guardrail against the mythos of such Eureka! moments:
'The literature on creativity is full of tales of breakthrough experiences. These moments come when you let go of some impediment or fear, and boom — in whooshes the muse. You feel clarity, power, freedom, as something unforeseeable jumps out of you. The literature of Zen… abounds with accounts of kensho and satori — moments of illumination and moments of total change of heart. There come points in your life when you simply kick the door open. But there is no ultimate breakthrough; what we find in the development of a creative life is an open-ended series of provisional breakthroughs. In this journey there is no endpoint, because it is the journey into the soul.'
Read the full article here: THE MARGINALIAN - The Remedy for Creative Block and Existential Stuckness
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