Today’s territory
Language and creativity.
Perception can mean different things.
I use it to mean ’the range of sensory input we take in: sight, hearing, smell, tactile awareness, kinesthetic sensing, etcetera’.
Recently a friend used it just as emphatically to mean ‘what we decide about something, that may or may not be true’.
Seems simple but in fact these are almost opposite uses of the word.
One word is information received, one is a decision about information.
One word references the outer world, one the inner world.
Creativity and artmaking are dependant on inner language.
After all, it is inner voices that we hear telling us this piece works, this doesn’t, or confirming or denying that we have the right to make the art we want.
Your creative processing has to use your language to support and inspire you.
What language do you use to yourself?
Are you allowing your senses to bring in all the richness of your experiences, to stimulate your artistic mind, to entrance and fuel your creativity, to enjoy your life fully?
Some people inadvertently filter their senses, and decide what to take in before they really know what is there.
Our perception, our senses, are offering us the world’s biggest art supply store.
Everything is free, the place is full of materials and ideas, and the selection is tailor-made to our unique loves and goals.
Projecting onto our perceptions, deciding what value something has before we receive it and use it is like walking away from our personal free art supply warehouse.
Be bold and walk on in, gather up huge overflowing armfuls of all life offers to your senses, leave brimming with happiness and great stuff.
It’s yours, all yours.
Exploring in art and in life-
Tory