Magda Cragg, speaking of her partner, the poet Lew Welch, said: He made space around you, so you could grow.”
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Learning at the boundaries
The boundary is the best place for acquiring knowledge. — Paul Tillich
Getting on the Inside and Pressing Out
“…we must get rid of this outside feeling of looking in on art. We must get on the inside and press out. Art is simply a result of expression during right feeling…Any material will do. After all, the object is not to make art, but to be in the wonderful state which makes art inevitable.” [ Read more … ]
Peanut butter and jelly creativity
Yesterday I came across something I wrote in 2000, at a time when I was opening up my creative channels. I’d completed my Ph.D. in 1996 and taught for a few years, but came to a point where I needed to completely disengage from the “PH.D.” and open the door to a broader range of [ Read more … ]
The Beauty of the Amateur
From the artist Corita Kent’s book, Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit: “A tremendously constricting force on our contemporary society is the concept of the professional or specialist, who deals for the most part with what has already been done and builds on his own limits. To the extent we can approach [ Read more … ]