Friday, April 9, 2010

Nurturing Creativity - Week 14

I pulled this card days ago but, like I said before....I'm been having so much fun playing that I haven't taken the time out to blog! So, today I'm playing catch-up! And here is this week's challenge.....

Emotional Hot Spots
The idea - take emotional issues and work through them (at least partially if not completely) through creating something. An emotional catharsis. Funny, but not too long ago I remember telling Tom that I just really didn't understand artists who say that pain and suffering enhanced their art. When I'm depressed or frustrated, I can't seem to get the creative juices flowing at all! Totally confusing.
However, as most of you know, there is a lot of frustration and emotional hot spots recently (like the past year anyway). One of the pieces I did was really more to celebrate the fact that I was coping! Transitions - "Life Upside Down" was one of those endeavors. But what I recently found interesting is that I made quite a few ATCs to kinda ease back into my studio after a dry spell. I didn't think about it much....just did it. But when it came to naming the cards for trading or swaps........I found that the names for them expressed many feelings of frustration, etc.
Like...Rough Around The Edges I and II....

...Back From the Abyss...

...Trying to Keep It All Together...

...and Searching For Memories. This one is for my dad who is now in nursing care with Alzheimers.

So, it seems that the emotional hot spots have a way of working themselves to the surface even if you aren't looking for them! Very interesting week........................

1 comment:

Jensters said...

Great reading and wonderful work.