hello, i'm laura and i have creative a.d.d.
those photos are of aspects of six different projects i'm currently working on.
my creativity is constantly giving me ideas and inspiration and i have trouble saying not now. i also have trouble with things i'm not used to doing (ie: learning new things) which is something i'm trying to change.
those six different projects, that's just the start. there is also the gardening, the baking, the woodworking, the papier-mache, the clay sculpting, the sewing and more.
i know, if i could focus on just one thing at a time, i'd get a lot done. these things were all started at various times, some as long as three years ago and the most recent was december 2019.
the photos above are all w.i.p.s. and i love them all. i never know what i'm going to feel like working on or what my body/brain limits are going to be each day so it's good to have variety. this week the sweater seems to have my attention, but while i'm knitting and purling there are all kinds of ideas stewing in my head about things i want to try.
i've been working my way through "The Artist's Way", a book about creative recovery by Julia Cameron. one of the things i've found out about myself is that i'm terrified to try new things. so i set a goal for myself to try two new things (that i've never done/made/etc) each month. last month was just one, i was more than halfway through the month when i set this goal, which was to learn to use my dehydrator. i know, that doesn't seem like an art goal. but for me it is, as it is trying something i was afraid to do. (i don't know why i was afraid of my dehydrator, i'm also afraid to use my food processor, so...)
i had some moderate success with the dehydrator, and am ready to try again.
that's the point i'm trying to teach myself, to try...
so...creative a.d.d. and sometimes creative a.d.H.d. when an urge hits and i work on something non-stop until it is done. it happens, occasionally.
do you have any creative blocks? do you jump from thing to thing? how do you approach trying something new?
thanks for stopping by for a read...
love & blessings
~*~
2 comments:
Your Muse is inspiring you! "The Artist's Way" is a true classic. I'm glad you're enjoying it and learning from it!
I, too, am terrible at saying no (or even "just a moment") to the muse. I always have too many things going on at the same time. You are so right, we could probably get all sorts of things done... if we only focused on one time at a time.
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