Toward the end of 2020, I decided to pick up a copy of “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron. “The Artist’s Way” is a celebrated book for reason, it is a powerful guide to enhancing your creativity. In many ways, “The Artist’s Way” led directly to me choosing creative as my Feelings Collector feeling for 2021. In brief, “The Artist’s Way” is a twelve-week program designed to help its readers overcome their creative blocks and to learn to self-actualize through creating art. Cameron has an implicit theory of flow that aligns quite well with much of what I read and studied throughout 2020 and I will certainly be expanding on that in the future.
Read moreExploring creativity through sculpture
In doing an exercise from “The Artist’s Way” late last year, I identified a latent interest that I had never pursued: sculpture. I suppose it originated in my often-felt feeling on archaeological digs that excavation was a bit like sculpting, but with earth.
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