I love to pull inspiration from music, the media, and people I encounter. Recently I've notice my taste in music reverting back to rock. I've been listening to A Perfect Circle's album called "eMotive". The second single, entitled "Imagine" is very powerful to me. It puts me into a trance and gives me tingles all over. I feel like the song's lyrics and melody physically grabs my mind and takes me into the world the songs speaks about, a truly united world, with no religion, no countries, no hell below . . . just sky. I wonder what I could to with this concept artistically. I'm still amazed at how diverse my taste in music is. I feel I have alienated myself from those who may also be fans of A Perfect Circle's Music. Most of my friends like Brittney Spears, Beyonce, and Rihanna . . . or anything of the such. I want to reconnect with the other sides of my personality. and find people who can nurtrure those sides. I strive to be as well rounded as possible.
As far as fashion goes, there's this theme of sepia tones and reptillian inspired patterns and sillhouettes, bronzed skin, and a lot of angst, that has been inspired from a song entitled "The Libertine" from Patrick Wolf. The song is so provocative, it makes my mind perspire with imagery . . . I think of seductive clothing, extreme conditions, the desert, wilted hair stuck onto the face, moistened, bronzed skin, intense hues . . . Extreme contrast . . . I'm going to begin sketching tonight hopefully. I feel very good right now although I'm a little exhausted. Well that shouldn't stop me, it doesn't stop me from going clubbing so it should no longer stop me from my art.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Oh . . .The hell with organization! (update)
I've successfully executed a sincere piece of work. I know I mentioned gray and brown as the color scheme that I was inspired to use, but I decided to be really ambitious with my color selections. When it's all finished and all the lines and shapes are clean, I will enhance some of the color with nail polish to achieve maximum intensity. Let's just hope that I actually finish this piece, because I think it has lots of potential!
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Oh . . .The hell with organization!
Tonight I simply want to create something that is genuine and sincere, from inside of me. I don't want to edit or revise anything. After changing out of my work clothes into a gray sweater and gray jeans with brown leather flip flops, I think I will create something in that color scheme. While studying for my psychology exam I came across a term known as "intrinsic motivation" which simply refers to something that you feel motivated to do because of your own reasons. It was mentioned that achievements from intrinsic motivations are more gratifying then extrinsically motivated achievements. We will see soon!
Organization . . . My prerequisite for creativity
"I will sit at my easel with the intention of painting, but the outcome will result in me spending hours organizing & straightening things. Apparently I'm more interested in optimizing the creative experience than the creative experience itself."
I've been yearning to create lately. It affects my job performance, my grades, and my social life adversely when I don't do enough creating. I'm usually referring to painting or drawing, but I'm also getting into fashion design, and creative writing as well. For me it's become more of a matter of elevating and preserving the relationship between reflection and expression. In Psychology class I learned a new term that refers to altering information to increase memory retention. This is known as encoding. Expressing one's thoughts and experiences involves lots of interpretation, which is what encoding is. My goal is to encode as much sensory data as I can for the purpose of extracting and sourcing it for inspiration. Think about people who drink their urine to make use of the excess vitamins that would have been flushed down the toilet otherwise. In order to feel confident that I am performing at or above my potential volume and quality level I need to be able to recover each and every event, thought, and/ or conclusion that I experience in expectancy of recovering inspiration and securing this mindset by interpreting it into art and therefore encoding the sensory data and elevating my creative intelligence. I need to be very organized to accommodate such a complex system of creation. Sometimes I wonder if such a system even exists, or if it would be to tedious to yield anything. Organizing has become an obsession. I will sit at my easel with the intention of painting, but the outcome will result in me spending hours organizing & straightening things. Apparently I'm more interested in optimizing the creative experience than the creative experience itself.
I've been yearning to create lately. It affects my job performance, my grades, and my social life adversely when I don't do enough creating. I'm usually referring to painting or drawing, but I'm also getting into fashion design, and creative writing as well. For me it's become more of a matter of elevating and preserving the relationship between reflection and expression. In Psychology class I learned a new term that refers to altering information to increase memory retention. This is known as encoding. Expressing one's thoughts and experiences involves lots of interpretation, which is what encoding is. My goal is to encode as much sensory data as I can for the purpose of extracting and sourcing it for inspiration. Think about people who drink their urine to make use of the excess vitamins that would have been flushed down the toilet otherwise. In order to feel confident that I am performing at or above my potential volume and quality level I need to be able to recover each and every event, thought, and/ or conclusion that I experience in expectancy of recovering inspiration and securing this mindset by interpreting it into art and therefore encoding the sensory data and elevating my creative intelligence. I need to be very organized to accommodate such a complex system of creation. Sometimes I wonder if such a system even exists, or if it would be to tedious to yield anything. Organizing has become an obsession. I will sit at my easel with the intention of painting, but the outcome will result in me spending hours organizing & straightening things. Apparently I'm more interested in optimizing the creative experience than the creative experience itself.
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