{"id":284812,"date":"2020-11-05T20:45:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T01:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=284812"},"modified":"2020-11-05T20:45:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T01:45:50","slug":"inspiration-and-expiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/05\/inspiration-and-expiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration and Expiration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inspiration literally means to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in+breathe\u00e2\u20ac\u009d while expiration means \u00e2\u20ac\u0153out+breathe\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We seek artistic inspiration&#8230; but what if we also need artistic \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<em>expiration<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (a breathing out of art work or concepts or ideas) in order to create an artistic flywheel between the inspiration *and* expiration side of art?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure 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