create with no shame
create with no measuring stick
use only this:
everything that is done well
is good art
explore and excavate forms,
churn the ether
within you is the sleeping artist,
tap yourself awake,
yet be silent,
be intimate,
with the unconscious plateaus
with in you
be intimate
with the making
and the doing,
the fertility
of creating
you will require silence
to allow for reflection,
communication
Childbirth is noisy, messy,
Birthing art is different
understand your language,
mine it, taste it,
it is your play dough
avoid the chronic,
habit is slavery
collaborate for
there in nothing new
under the sun,
but the constant rediscovery
of the old
in new forms
when ideas are exchanged,
every partnership is a solo
Experience anew,
Each time,
Say:
This is my first time,
This is my first work
I do not need your validation.
I validate myself
and in doing so,
who else
comes along
for the ride
on our tide?
create with no shame
create with no measuring stick
only this:
everything that is done well
is good art
Be Fertile and Radiate
Mar 21, 2014
Mar 21, 2014 at 12:18 AM UTC
create with no shame
create with no measuring stick
use only this:
everything that is done well
is good art
explore and excavate forms,
churn the ether
within you is the sleeping artist,
tap yourself awake,
yet be silent,
be intimate,
with the unconscious plateaus
with in you
be intimate
with the making
and the doing,
the fertility
of creating
you will require silence
to allow for reflection,
communication
Childbirth is noisy, messy,
Birthing art is different
understand your language,
mine it, taste it,
it is your play dough
avoid the chronic,
habit is slavery
collaborate for
there in nothing new
under the sun,
but the constant rediscovery
of the old
in new forms
when ideas are exchanged,
every partnership is a solo
Experience anew,
Each time,
Say:
This is my first time,
This is my first work
I do not need your validation.
I validate myself
and in doing so,
who else
comes along
for the ride
on our tide?
create with no shame
create with no measuring stick
only this:
everything that is done well
is good art
Be Fertile and Radiate
Most of the words and ideas here belong to Alonzo King, a choreographer, whose company I saw perform Wednesday evening. I threw some of myself in here and there.
Art is the path of the creator to his work. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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