Titan Evolution

Some people might think I don’t really have a creative process. That things just appear into my head and then happen to work out or not. From my point of view, things rarely work out being creative.  Yet, in the end, perhaps that is really just my true creative process shining though. Ideas that need to develop over time can’t be constructed in a day.

I found this video of Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity at PvP Online. I am unfamiliar with who she is as a writer. However, I do find her discussion about the creative process very revealing to the work I am currently doing. My takeaway is we each have our own demons in our own creative processes. Each of which are dealt with in unique and varied ways.

I struggle with creativity and expanding my boundaries of work beyond where they exist today.  Not only because of time considerations, but also because of the items I choose to work on from moment to moment and day to day.  Sometimes I feel like my job doesn’t present the challenges I need to feed my creative demons.  Forcing them to devour other parts of my focus.  Perhaps this is the root cause of my desire to see “shiny things” around me.  My creative demons reaching out for something to draw inspiration from.

The truth is even in the mundane I should see the creative.  Transferring PDF content into a web page focused toward an electrical engineer is not the most exciting work in the world.  Yet is my objective not the finished product?  Would it not be more appropriate to see my creative desires as an accumulation of the whole project, instead of the individual piece in front of me?  I would have to say YES!  Each detail is the beginning of the final piece of art.   And my block is sometimes I cannot see the forest for the tree in front of me.

A detail I work on overcoming everyday.  A detail I strive to consume in the production of continually evolving work.