We Are All Creators

The majority of people I meet have had a bad experience learning about and engaging in art making at one point in their schooling days, and are haunted by the memory, long into their adult lives. These people almost refuse to engage in creative art making for fear of being judged, rejected, "not good enough". Truth be told, we all fall victim to these thought patterns, especially artists.

We must learn to create fearlessly and endlessly, by first recognizing that we have a desire to make new things. We have a desire to play, experiment and explore. We do it everyday in our own unique ways. Humans are born to create. Every action that requires bringing pieces together to make a whole is a form of creation and creation is art. It's life. It's constant. It's everyday, all the time.

From the moment we wake up, the routines and rituals we create for ourselves represent the creative process of life. The choices we make throughout the day, for our bodies and the bodies that surround us. The clothes we wear, the food we eat, the words we choose, the emotions we most often lean on, the interactions we choose to respond or react to. These are the brushstrokes of life. You are the artist, you choose the colour, the canvas, the brushstrokes. You get to decide the process, but the result is a mystery.

The way the future is a mystery, despite all of our meticulous planning, nothing ever goes

exactly as planned. I know this. You know this. But do we really want to believe it as truth? Apply this to your art making. Accept that based on the hours of experience and the amount of learning, the outcome can be steered in a desired direction, but at the end of the day, we cannot be certain of the result that will come from the final stages of production.

We must let go of our expectations. We must embrace imperfection. We must simply create.