This is so interesting - I feel much the same as a visual artist! I accept that I will have 'fallow' periods where I am not making anything, and have come to accept these as an equal part of my practise. A friend described it to me as 'input / output' - in the times when I'm not physically creating the art, I'm still taking in material (…
This is so interesting - I feel much the same as a visual artist! I accept that I will have 'fallow' periods where I am not making anything, and have come to accept these as an equal part of my practise. A friend described it to me as 'input / output' - in the times when I'm not physically creating the art, I'm still taking in material (mainly literature) and that is informing what I will eventually make. And of course, accepting that some of my ideas will just be bad and not come to anything, but these will also inform future projects.
This is so interesting - I feel much the same as a visual artist! I accept that I will have 'fallow' periods where I am not making anything, and have come to accept these as an equal part of my practise. A friend described it to me as 'input / output' - in the times when I'm not physically creating the art, I'm still taking in material (mainly literature) and that is informing what I will eventually make. And of course, accepting that some of my ideas will just be bad and not come to anything, but these will also inform future projects.