The Red Circle – Finding Your Creative Voice

The secret: go with the flow of whatever we are presented. Take the action. Decisions create energy and fuel vision. Example: I am painting abstracts – what a great way to find our inner creative voice. So I look at a piece and I get an image of adding a big red circle to the moves I have already made…. Ugh, really? ….Banal… Is that as creative as I can get?…. Then I get about 5 more seemingly unworthy ideas which I likewise push to the side because of this or that, and… that’s about when the creative voice decides that if I am not going to play, neither is the creative voice.  No more moves…. End of creativity…..yep, there is nothing now……. OK, we obviously need to try a new approach. How about going with what ever bubbles up then? I hoist another piece on the easel….. “Dark vivid line right through the whole piece”.  Really? OK then. Vivid line coming up….what color? “Brown” ….Uh….not my favorite color here, just sayin, but OK, brown line coming up.  Oh wow, all the circular elements in the piece line up on this vivid line…. and oh wow, the other lines now work with the vivid line to add an element of perspective…. I realize my lesson is that THIS is how to get beyond where I was, beyond my paltry bag of marks that defined me a moment ago. Having trust in the creative voice immerses us in a new world of NEW marks.  A door has opened beyond which lies an endless vocabulary of NEW moves. Our love affair with Control is left at the threshold of THIS door.  Peter Gabriel is singing on my iTunes “without my pride…I reach out from the inside“.   I walk through and I am afloat in Pure unadulterated Discovery.  I am excited.  Every once in a while when I can forget thinking about what I am doing, I get the most wonderful butterfly sensations – the vibration…the connection…… I get it. Basically the creative voice figures that if I cannot follow a simple instruction of a big red circle – how can I follow magnificent instruction? I would be overwhelmed. The big red circle is a big red training wheel.  My actions and the Creative reactions are the fuel of creativity. So much of this is about acceptance. There are no mistakes. We cannot see so far ahead to know what is a mistake or what is simply a new foundation, so we trust that the moves we make now are the foundation of the new final piece, even though we cannot see the final piece now, and no matter our pride. I am having a thought to rotate the piece, and ….. wow….a whole new concept appears….an archway to somewhere….I had no idea that I was painting this. I know I am on the right path when my day is filled with wows. “Bubbles”…… Really?….In fine art?….OK, “without my pride” bubbles coming up, lots of them……where to next?……