I have a longstanding fascination/obsession/abhorrance for contradictions. This is interesting to me on both an intellectual plane and a very personal one, as I am constantly/occasionally torn between trying to become more stable and fighting for my freedom and flexibility. It's nice to know I'm not alone
It's interesting that so many contradictions can be overcome. The flexibility/stability is something I have been working on for some time now. I realized it on conscious level just something like couple of years ago. I am now convinced that mental stability comes through spontaneity and it doesn't feel like a contradiction at all. Why do we first think that limiting and controlling our actions is the key? Maybe it seems easiest to control what we do, in other words try to act in better ways. But this is not true control. True control is that you feel safe to let go. You trust the animal in you to be humane.
I believe that any person has the potential for creativity. I also believe that our greatest limits are the ones we set on ourselves, and the greatest hinderance to growth is fear. Fear of the unknown, of the new. We resist even the contemplation of change. With creativity, what is being created/processed is the very definition of unknown. It is a risk on the part of the person who created it, and a risk for the others in their social group to accept it. Nothing is free of consequence.
Yep. Well said.
Beautiful! What were you thinking of? Each of those pictures look like they are moving to me.
I was thinking human curves, then I realized it started to look like plants, so I made it a tree. This isn't the first, actually. There I think the human form is almost visible. I haven't scanned it... It's lying around here somewhere.
It is the peace/excitement I find through performing. Whether planned or improvised, through instruments or acting, through singing or dancing... but not all performances are equal and not all result in this sensation. I only find it when I risk something, when I give up a bit of my honesty to who I am performing for. I have to lose a piece of me to gain that depth of connection.
Yeah, acting is a rush! Singing too. But it is not often that I get the flow through them, but when I do, it really is something. And other people acknowledge it too. They see that the flow performance is a lot better than the normal stuff. Some people have been amazed at my singing (because I really can't sing that well normally)...