THE POWER OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS

How is your art serving your heart? How does it serve your community, your values? And does your practice of it (literally when and how you show up) express your values and the world you want to live in? Sometimes we forget how powerful the creative process is. We see beautiful finished products and forget all the trial and error it took to get there. All the areas of life that are being responded to and redefined. It’s much easier to appreciate the connection between art and life when looking back at history, yet so much more challenging to see in real time. 

Part of the reason I believe more people ought to learn how to sing or pick up an instrument, take a dance class or a drawing class is as much for the art that gets created as for what we learn about ourselves. The mental unwinding, the inner and outer conflicts revealed which can be hugely liberating. Depending on your awareness you can see the artistic process as a way to get out of your own way. 

And right now it feels like we truly need to get out of our own way, our old habits. On the anniversary of September 11th, with wild fires burning out west, a presidential election approaching and the President’s attempts to defund the post office instead of the police, with the pandemic continuing and not much end in sight, it feels as if we are constantly in the midst of deep reflection and urgency. So is there a way art can serve you in this time? To reflect in the way you need, to mourn, to celebrate and help transform the world.