Create A Space For Your Creativity
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 09:20AM Creating a space for yourself to be your creative self is a good idea. If you have a room that you can go to that is no one else’s this will help.
For myself it’s my studio. I have all kinds of things in there from every phase of my life. Touring memento’s, conferences, children’s toys, artwork, instruments, photographs, equipment, 24 trk tape, 8 trk tape, cassettes, lps, books, and magazines.
I can look around this room and conjure up memories and images from all over the world.
What you first need to do is find a space that you can claim. And it doesn’t have to be a room. It can be a corner of a room. Just someplace that you devote to your craft. The place where you practice, write, dream, and slag away.
I have my computers in here as well as notebooks full of ideas, songs, lyrics, poems, drawings and I go thru them when I feel the well is a little dry. There is always something in there that will awaken the muse.
If you have some favorite photos or artwork put it up in there. If you have toys that you played with as a child, put them on a shelf where you can see them.
All these things are gateways into other parts of your heart and mind and you always need to be able to access everything when you are creating.
Put your music books, song books, dictionary, thesaurus, book of quotes, whatever you have as reference books, keep them all handy.
Keep at least one instrument completely handy; ready to go at a moment’s notice so that you don’t have to unpack to play your guitar or whatever.
You don’t want anything between you and your creativity.
I have my pedals set up in front of an amp and one guitar hanging on the wall that I can take down and plug in and away I go, It’s always ready.
And while I have a clock on the wall, I’m not certain that that is a good idea. It’s just that this is the studio and clients need to know where they stand time wise, so it’s up there.
The first time I went to the home of the author Tom Robbins, he took me out back, across his yard to a little room that he used to write in. He went there to do that and it was jammed with every aspect of his life, his art, his zeitgeist.
And I thought to myself that it was amazing that we both made some place just for our art. But of course we did.
You need that place to go to. Make it so.
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