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Creativity, Spirituality and Surrender

Part of the ‘Creativity, Spirituality and Surrender’ collection.

Moment by moment creative potential sits poised, ready to be brought into the physical.
Infinite potential; infinite possibilities.

The perfect moment of creation is the moment of silent perfection which is just before the illumination of a thought; an idea; a revelation. The silence before the first note, the motionless moment before the pencil scribes paper and paintbrush slides deliciously into paint.
That is the perfection and true magic of creation. It is the ‘nothingness’, the infinite void of potential from where all things come. That is the divinity of creation
– the moment ‘before’.

Once the first note is played, the first line drawn, the first brush stroke swept, the moment is gone.
When the creative moment is transferred into the physical the beauty of perfection diminishes.
So how do we capture true intangible creative potential in the physical world? An honest expression of true creative potential would be to just sit, in silence, in ‘no thought’. A conduit for the creative spark to feed into, and through, and into form. A pipe….
To try to control, direct or influence the process muddies the crystal clear flow. To direct with intent and ‘mind’ causes the output to be contrived and inauthentic. So allowing the process to flow and to bring ‘no-thing’ naturally into form is to be truly creative. It is to surrender to the process. It is to sacrifice one’s own desires and thoughts and allow uninfluenced acts of creation to pour forth.

How long can that moment be held? How long can one facilitate the manifestation into the physical without influencing it? Is it seconds or can it be maintained for longer? Is it sustained by one’s ability to surrender, to be, and to exist for as long as possible in the ‘zone’?
The act of surrender, I believe, is similar to the act of surrender one needs in order to connect to one’s spiritual nature. To surrender, to trust, and to allow the process to bring a connection to the Divine. Forcing this process pushes the desired illumination of one’s spiritual nature further away. To force spiritual or creative connection pushes it away. Allowing, surrendering, trusting, and sacrificing one’s own thoughts and desires, gives space and allowance of flow into the conscious mind… But physically capturing, translating and expressing true creativity or true spirituality is tricky.
The perfection is the connection…
The creation of form from that connection is so clumsy, so inadequate, so primitive and so utterly futile it seems pointless. But still we creatives quest to express. Whether it is in images, music or words we are compelled to continue.

We need to express this beautiful space from which all things emerge…

Creativity, Spirituality and Surrender

Part of the ‘Creativity, Spirituality and Surrender’ collection.

In this body of work I seek to capture the first fleeting moments of creativity. These pieces are hung exactly as they were created and in the order in which they emerged. Each canvas captures a single creative moment; the first moments of creativity. It is not to follow that moment of perfection by polishing, correcting or perfecting that which emerges. It is to capture creativity in a raw instant. Each moment of creativity different. Each moment allowing a spark of creation to present in its own way into the physical. Moment after moment after moment. Infinite ways, infinite times….. On and on and on. Capturing creation through surrender and sacrifice. To not
pre-empt, think or influence those first initial moments. Each one separate, each one unique, each one an expression of creation into form.
A march of creation through time…… and capturing time through creation…..