Creatively Thinking

  Featured image:  The Spider Web In the corner of the porch attached to the cabin there is a huge gloriously, delicately designed spider web. The web’s design is only visible because the sun is high, lighting its delicate threads. It’s interesting to think of webs that are created in real life. It is hard like the spider web when it isn’t highlighted by the direct sunlight to avoid them. We become trapped by them, like the spider’s captives. Wonderfully, most of the time we can free ourselves and try not to fall in to the same trap again.

  Featured image:   Sunset at the Lake Art is beneficial to the heart, mind and soul. How does this “beneficial-ness” happen? There are many perspectives on how beneficial-ness is accomplished. I wrote about two in my musing when I said that it was “a hope for a reward or fear of being different.” Is beneficial-ness created in hopes of a monetary reward, a social reward, or is beneficial-ness created by simple wonderful creativity and imagination? I believe the latter. Intentions and objectives benefit many including the viewers of art and the artists themselves. Art should be an unconstrained essence and happiness. Art is slowly losing this value. Art triggers all of our naturalness. Art is capable of touching all of our spirits, selves and souls, because of its diversities only if it remains unconstrained (controlled, governed). Art triggers human potential in all of us but only if it remains unconstrained.

  Featured image:  It's a Keeper The words I say as I think to myself every day – every time I start a painting, every time I begin a musing – I am about individuality, and dreams and possibility. Of course, when I paint and say these words to myself - my work doesn't always agree with me. But I try and I learn every time I create.

  Featured image:  Her Song - She Has Always Sang To The Tune Of A Different Drummer   I am a poet, philosopher, artist,  Always, intimate, always searching Always ragged around the edges Always, alive, always passionate.

  Featured image:   Poppies and Roses In your art, are you process or product oriented?  How you answer that question makes a big big difference in what you create. Process involves you and who you are. Product involves what others think you are and your need to have them think positively about you. Process changes, evolves and grows. Product changes with popularity. Process involves independence. Product does not.

  Visions personal and intimate. Visions often can be linked to what we sense and feel. A vision happens before reason jumps in and changes where vision can play. Visions can give you a personal sense of how the world should work Featured image: Visions Are Like Maps https://christinealfery.com/products/visions-are-like-maps

  Featured image:   As The Wind Blows I think of the Bob Dylan song when I think of creating yourself as a work of art – “The Answer My Friend is Blow’n In The Wind.” In order to be a work of art …. In order to create “you” you need to blow with the wind. How many years will it be , how many years will it be before you can be yourself – and blow with the wind.