{"id":181831,"date":"2019-10-25T11:19:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T18:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=181831"},"modified":"2019-10-25T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T18:27:00","slug":"artistic-or-photographic-hormones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/25\/artistic-or-photographic-hormones\/","title":{"rendered":"Artistic or photographic hormones?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A thought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if much of our impulse to make art, photographs, etc is related to our hormones?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. The fear hormone (cortisol, etc) as an indicator that you want to photograph something [street photography], but you’re afraid of the negative consequences.<\/li>
  2. The hormonal response to wanting to photograph a beautiful person or a model [what drives portrait photography, or even painting portraits?] The prolific artist as also a very sexually-charged or perceptive person?<\/li>
  3. When I am intermittent fasting, perhaps my hormones for my ‘fasting glucose levels’ are steady, which gives me energy and motivation to make art?<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Why do I feel more compelled to write and do creative stuff after lifting weights or sprinting?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    When I was in high school, I played (American) football [linebacker]. And this is the interesting thing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    After an intense practice, I felt a huge hormonal rush, which gave birth to tons of creative ideas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    When I rushed home, I would then go on my computer and write out ideas and blog posts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Therefore a theory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Perhaps in order to induce ourselves to do creative work, we must first trigger a hormonal response associated with physical exercise, or muscular effort\/exertion? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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    I have no motivation to make art after eating an all-you-can-eat buffet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Let us assume I had a carb and sugar-heavy all-you-can eat buffet of orange chicken (corn syrup + sugar), ice cream, cookies, white bread, Coca Cola, orange juice, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    After this, I would have a MASSIVE insulin spike, and then a crash (which causes me to fall into ‘food coma’ in which I just want to go home and take a nap).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Therefore, diet (and timing of when you eat your meals) does have a big effect and influence on your artistic production<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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