"Creativity is not a competition. Artisan work is about expressing your soul; it's about sharing a part of yourself in every piece you create." - Unknown
"Creating with your hands is an act of love. Every stitch, brush stroke, and chisel mark contains a piece of the soul. Cherish the imperfections; they make your work uniquely yours." - Unknown
"Your hands are capable of creating wonders, and your business can thrive on that magic. Remember, in a world of mass production, the uniqueness of handmade cannot be undervalined." - Anonymous
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Thought I'd take a moment to share some of the #curation I'm doing via @Flipboard. 🙌
You can follow my Flipboard profile in the fediverse @mia to get everything I'm reading and sharing across many topics, or just the collections that interest you. Here are five I've updated recently:
The Art and Science of Building a Creative Process with Jamie Blume & Zach Morris
Begins Wed, May 15, 2024
4 sessions - $215 per person
We’ll dissect the creative process, exploring commonalities between creative practices across disciplines to articulate & enact step-by-step plans to bring a big creative undertaking to fruition. Students will have a concrete plan to achieve one of their artistic goals.
Two good questions this morning from Andrew Simonet. The second is one I don’t think we talk about enough: you can’t just have the greatest art from the greatest artists, without the whole cultural ecosystem that produces and nurtures them. The minor artists and the failed experiments all play essential roles too.
@mcmullin@contemporarymusic@composers Here we are reminded of Prof. Peter Schickele's assessment of Mozart's environment, in which he refers to "all the lesser but nevertheless competent composers that dotted the musical landscape of the Age of Enlightenment."
A comment about “winnowing” reminds me of another way I’ve heard* this idea put more succinctly: “You can separate the wheat from the chaff, but you can’t grow the wheat without the chaff.” (And in art, we don’t have to decide which is which.)
*Anyone know who said this first? I don’t remember where I heard it.
Creative people, especially if your creative work is also a big chunk of your income, you might want to read author Vanessa Chan on giving your brain a break and doing joyful things without feeling guilty about it.
Everyone is always talking about how they want you to think outside the box, by which, presumably, they mean to think unconventionally. But it’s rare that someone actually wants you to think beyond the parameters of what they’re comfortable with, as their comfort is entirely what delineates the confines of the box. It is, in fact, the very point of the box.
