Waiting all day

“I think we’re creative all day long. And we have to have an appointment to have that work out on the page.” 

-Mary Oliver

Last Night’s Rain

The leaves of the palm tree are wet
A shallow puddle on the parking lot
We laughed and jumped in the puddles
We were young and wild
God gave us the time to be a child
Received the fruits of youth
Now grown we yearn
The return to childlikeness
The frolic, innocence, creative mind.

a question

If I stop talking for fifteen minutes

will you write me a poem?

Is that a creative question?

Or is it a creative request

or neither?

I am curious.

note: several hundred-year old church in Trier, in Germany.

 

Where will you be

Creativity is unpredictable
unlike the hours of the tides
or like a warrior looking for a battle
decides to become a farmer
and grows the sweetest papaya in the land.
Or it could be a driftwood
that landed on the beach
can be carved as a piece of art.

Creativity is not to dream
of a white deer with crystal antlers
but to find if crystals and antlers
have something in common.
Tomorrow is Thursday
where will you be?
We can start a collaboration.

Work

“One must work with the creative powers-for not to work is to work against; in art as in spiritual life there is no neutral place. Especially at the beginning, there is a need of discipline as well as solitude and concentration.”
-Mary Oliver

note: from Of Power and Time, a chapter in Upstream, Selected Essays by Mary Oliver

misty

Four walk in the morning mist
one in pink optimism
does she have to chase creativity?

imagine

the art of swimming
between strokes and form
she arranges tiny leaves floating on the pool
a fan, mountain summits, aurora borealis

beware, be aware

“Intellectualism is a primary block for many creative people….Sometimes knowledge impedes change: We know more but do less.”-The Artist Way at Work

note: the quotation taken from The Artist Way at Work, Riding the Dragon, Twelve Weeks to Creative Freedom by Mark Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine Allen

disposable art

From kitchen accessories and idea came, led to disposable art.

Thou salt not

somewhere in the garden…
My Collection

if a rubber band is a story…
In the beginning

a debate ad absurdum.

your role or mine?

Six stages of progression of creative pairs

III Dialectics.In the heart of their creative work, pairs thrive on distinct and enmeshed roles, taking up positions in archetypal combinations that point to the essential place of dichotomy in the creative process.

note: excerpts from the book,Powers of Two, Fining the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs by Joshua Wolf Shenk.