I am addicted to and love to create. To me, being in the zen zone of creating and the “flow” of creation is the optimal state.
As the years have progressed, I feel I’ve become more creative the more I’ve disconnected. To disconnect — to gain some sort of “creative isolation” — away from social media, and your contemporaries. This is the great secret to creative productivity:
Always be learning, but always be creating as well.
One of my new favorite apps is the Google “Arts and Culture” app, in order to discover new artists to draw inspiration from. For example, my recent interest in Japanese woodblock printing — like the work of Hokusai or the work of Hiroshige (below):
What I’m looking for:
New creative, compositional insights from the past masters.
Harnessing boredom as a means to creative production
If we can channel boredom in a meaningful way — this can be a great spur to our creativity.
Analyzing your own works, to figure out *why* you like them.
