As artists, we are often inspired by the world around us-- but there are times we also need a nudge. I was curious as to substances that enhance the creative process. Well, I will be honest-- "I" was not curious-- Rainer was curious. So anyway, does boozing, hashish, loud music, ten large pizzas, or skinamax get your creative juices flowing...
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ReplyDeleteand being a color theory teacher to college fashion students ... their creativity inspires me to try new things.
I know it sounds boring, but I have the most energy and charge for my creativity by drinking the cleanest water I can find. Add some organic herbal tea (Guayaki’s Mate Chocolatte tea is absolutely decadent!) to that, and I'm set! My favorite water comes directly from the volcano Mount Shasta in Mount Shasta City, California and the Ogallala Aquifer (running from So. Dakota to Texas). I also get reverse osmosis H2O from grocery marts, but it's not the same as the pure stuff. Gotta go fill my water bottle - revisions need to be made. I'm eager to see what helps other artists get their creative juices flowing.
ReplyDeletePain is my Motivation & Sorrow is my tool. Pain creates my vision beyond the normal pain barrier & sorrow builds streagth to do just that! black & white, looks like color!
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Moving my workspace from my garage (28 steps) to my screen porch (3 steps) seems to have done the trick. I find I accidentally wander out there more often, I see something that I want to work on and off I go. Am I really that easily distra....
ReplyDeleteReading good literature is always a winner for me. For some reason unknown to me when I'm immersed in a good book my dream process gets a jump start and then the images start to flow; really a flood begins. It doesn't matter whether the book is fiction or nonfiction but it does matter if the writing is very well done. An example would be the reading and re-reading of Don Dellilo's "The Body Artist".
ReplyDeleteThere is no one thing that get the juicy flowing. For me they are always flowing, just the speed of the current varies. I have well over a hundred ideas sketch out and each of those will have a dozen branch directions I want to follow given time. I have many on going series, such as my man with the green umbrella. At times I will do three four four piece in a row. Other times he will reappear three four four times over a course of twenty to thirty paintings. If anything stimulates a new image its simple a moment or a curve, a line that I glimpse ad then my mind fills in the details and I start to create an internal narrative and back-story.
ReplyDeleteSome people speak of music as inspiration. This is not the case for me. What music does for me is top create repetitive memory and mood and moment. I will have the same CD playing repeatedly as I work on a piece. If the particular piece takes days or weeks, the music in question allows me to slide into the same mood-space that I began the work in, thus allowing me to maintain a consistency of mood. At times I will do this with the same DVD playing over and over again, allowing me to listen to dialogue and incident music. Most often these are films from the 30's through the mid fifties, and often from Film Noir genre.
I, for one, cannot image creating work under the effects of alcohol or some form of narcotic. People tell me I already posses a wild mind that goes places few under the influence of mind altering substance would ever dare going.
If you want a more concise answer, it would simple be the act of living life and pursuing creative lines without fear.
Dead Can Dance and a long commute, I do not like having a regular job but I can really come up with ideas on the open road.
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Really loud, really good music is an absolute must. Right now, it's got to be the Melvins. I find pot can make for some interesting work, especially for the sort of repetitive kind of stuff I make. I can tell you that painting on acid is a big no-no. Paint does not taste as good as it looks.
ReplyDeleteXanthines, Melatonin, Hashish
ReplyDeleteGroups of friends, groups of strangers, nature spots
Hallucinogens, Fantasy Stories, Music
-Jacob
Oh and constant meditation of course!
ReplyDeleteFor me, creativity comes immediately after I have sat down at my computer and opened a new document. Then I get back up and make coffee. It's usually about this moment when I realize the refrigerator needs to be cleaned out, and so I stop fixing the coffee, and start ransacking the fridge. Feel much better about thirty minutes later when I finish, and go back to fixing coffee. While I wait for the coffee to brew, I go back to the computer and usually stare at the space where a title might go. Resist the urge to look at facebook, and realize the coffee is ready. On the way back into the kitchen, I notice that the dogs have gotten on the sofa, and so I pull out the vacuum cleaner and start sucking up dog hair. Since I have the attachments out, I figure I might as well get the base boards. By this time, i have worked up a real thirst, so I take a break for an ice water and a cigarette. Now I'm ready for coffee, but that sounds good with a cigarette, so I have another one. While I'm smoking, I think of a passage in a book that I love, one that really fits with what I'm trying to write, so I go back inside and start trying to find the book. Of course, this leads to the realization that all my books are dusty and the shelves need to be dusted.
ReplyDeleteSooooo, as you can see, i find inspiration in an immaculate house, loads of caffeine and nicotine, and at the end of clinical procrastination.
.hummm....honestly..i really don't need to use anything to be creative..I daydream 50% of my day...that's how I get inspired..i also have really bizarre dreams..which help a lot... at the end though...looking around and being aware of the world around me is the best source if inspiration.
ReplyDeletehummm....honestly..i really don't need to use anything to be creative..I daydream 50% of my day...that's how I get inspired..i also have really bizarre dreams..which help a lot... at the end though...looking around and being aware of the world around me is the best source if inspiration.
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