One of the things we have been learning about this year- and tracking via journal- are phases of the moon. You’ll see it mentioned on our instagram every quarter step (full 🌕 third quarter 🌗 new 🌑 first quarter 🌓). 🌑 New Moon: new beginnings 🌒 Waxing Crescent: conceptualization 🌓 First Quarter: action 🌔 Waxing…
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Creativity During This Unusual Period of Time
Just a couple of weeks prior to the world-wide shut down, I started posting tiny strategies for artists on a site called Discipline of Passion. What started as a series of posts on productive creativity became as well a document of staying motivated and focused as the world spins around you. Enjoy. Thoughts include: Tiny…
Secrets
Sometimes it’s good to keep creative projects secret. I’ve been working for the past several months on something I call my secret art project. Protecting the creative space is a process. For years, I had a studio that was open to the public. This was interesting, on some levels, and led to amazing friendships, relationships, and…
Three Lists
When I arrived in the studio yesterday, I made three lists. Things I should do. Things I want to do. Things I’m afraid to do. I constrained the parameters to just studio work, by the way. Otherwise those could be very long lists. This was after a few days spent diligently and timefully completing year…
Creativity Generates Creativity
And energy generates energy. While it might seem to run contrary to the physics law of conservation of energy, we can use this as an emotional and inspirational truism. Everyone knows the feeling of being sluggish, tired, and having no energy. Then, you go to the gym or for a long hike- and the next…
Color Inspirations
Season after season, I find myself looking towards photos and memories of natural settings to choose colors for the new collection. For fall and winter of 2017, I was intensely interested in a bright yellow-green shade that reflected fall leaves. It was an odd color for a lingerie set, but It fit well with the…
Design Process 