As long as creative people feel in harmony with their work and are progressing, they are happy and fulfilled. When the relationship breaks down their interior life also breaks down.
- Ira Progoff, At a Journal Workshop
Journaling can help us gain access to the awareness each of us holds in the depths of our interior. We seek to open channels of communication, to encourage that quiet voice to offer what it wants to say.
Just as the universe is a creative entity constantly in the process of unfolding, so too does an inner universe exist inside our deep realms of semi-consciousness, and it too seeks to evolve, to unfold.
Creative people in particular are constantly in motion, engaged in an evolutionary process of becoming. To be static is to wither and die inside. We must evolve or putrefy.
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Write down brief descriptions of the major events, major works, major successes and failures, of your creative life.
Look for a connective thread.
What creative direction, what creative work, has been trying to emerge, to manifest?
Here’s a mockup of the two pages in the journal I’m working on,
Using An Art Journal To Probe Deep
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Creativity as a Way of Life: The use of journaling as a tool in creative work; an exploration of the inner work underlying creative work.
A Pause for Beauty: a gratitude art journal celebrating the beauty and mystery of the natural world, and the gift of life.
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Recent Projects And Random Thoughts
The new art journal, Nurturing The Song Within, explores the inner work that underlies creative work, and creating a unique life.
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Nurturing the Song Within, a chronicle of one artist’s efforts to evolve. An exploration of the inner work underlying creative work.
A Pause for Beauty, a celebration of the beauty and mystery of the natural world.
Below, two sample pages from my recent art journal, and the related diary/planner
Nurturing The Song Within
