For your creative care
3 good things
Hey pals,
I wanted to share more fun resources with you for creative nourishment, which I wrote about in one of my April newsletters, because there are no rules for how to care for yourself creatively. Here are three good things that are sure to help you along your way:
How Art Can Make You Happy helped me a lot when I was still working up the courage to have museum dates with myself. I wanted to feel connected to art again and when my mentor Lindsay suggested going to a museum and seeing art “IRL”, rather than on a screen, she was right. Bridget Watson Payne writes, “Every fiber of your being — your senses, your intellect, your emotions, even your physical corpus — responds to works of art.”
In this vlog, Sha’an d’Anthes shares a breakthrough from her The Artist’s Way morning pages: We should care for ourselves the same way we would a child. It makes us think twice about talking negatively and being too hard on ourselves. She says, “I wasn’t taking care of myself in the way that the adults in my life were taking care of me when I was little, in terms of my self esteem and belief in myself.”
Abstract painter Rebecca Morris values invention over refinement. In this Joan Mitchell Foundation interview, she says, “I don't want my paintings to just look like better, tighter versions of themselves. I want something new to happen.” She goes on to say, “I want to have the same excitement of those big discoveries I have had in the past. A lot of it is accidental and simply working — working in the studio, and just being open to improvisation, fuck-ups, bad moves and leaving them.”
How are you caring for yourself this week, creatively or otherwise?
Until next time,
Jade