I am back.   Images continue to appear.  Different ones surprise and amuse me.  Others demand  more focus and direction.  I wonder whether I should put a title on them.  Let me explain. Titles on some art pieces are descriptive of what seems obvious.  To me, a painting of Jesus on the cross entitled “Jesus […]

I am away from my studio for the next week, but I wanted to explore briefly whether the “products” of a creative process need to be justified.  I am not exactly sure whether “justified” is the correct word here, but I think you know what I mean.  Does a creative process need an outcome?  Does this […]

So one could conclude after watching the Cleese video that, like the words “love,” “soul,” and probably others, “creativity” can be described by using words that point to it but never quite capture it directly. The best we can say is that creativity looks something “like this.”  Or, creativity requires “open systems” not closed. Or, […]

 I highly recommend you take 36 minutes out of your busy life to watch Monty Python humorist and cultural jester John Cleese discuss creativity.  He is funny, he is profound, he is spot-on.  Listen to recurring words like play, openness, time, curiosity.  I am reminded of something attributed to Pablo Picasso:  “Every child is an […]

My brother, Jeff, made a comment that is worth including in this investigation of creativity.  He stated creativity is “stepping outside the small world of being human…above petty concerns and whining art.”  He knows something about this as a jazz guitarist for most of his life. (I don’t want to make this blog a venue […]