Now this is interesting to me; the most recent piece I made, the one about seeing in the dark, almost didn't get posted on my Ann Vargas Art facebook page or on Instagram.
I really struggled making it. Nothing clicked. I wasn't "in the zone". It wasn't flowing. I tweaked it. And tweaked it some more, but still wasn't satisfied with it.
But I have received a lot of good responses to it and a dear, dear friend of mine wants to buy the original! Goes to show how much I know ha ha...
This tells me that I need to trust the creative process and that sometimes my images seem to know more about what needs to be created than I do; and that sometimes it's better to go with, rather than struggle against creative forces; and that it would be advisable to explore those promptings with openness and curiosity rather than trying to control them; and that maybe as creators, we need to understand that many ideas may actually come from a deeper place within us, a place that our finite, small self cannot always comprehend or even immediately perceive; and that maybe it would behoove me to realize that these pictures are meant for those for whom they hold meaning and less for the purpose of dazzling you with my "artiste-ness".
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